# Ansible controller

A script is provided to build the Python virtualenv required to execute the playbooks.

# Download playbooks

cd ~

git clone https://github.com/HewlettPackard/Anthos-on-SimpliVity.git

Change to the directory that was created using the git clone command:

$ cd ~/Anthos-on-SimpliVity

# Create Python Virtual environment

The use of a Python Virtual environment allows for flexibility in ansible host creation. It also provides an easy method to freeze the version of required packages through the use of a requirements file.

The provided script prerequisites/ansible-setup.sh will build the python virtualenv needed to execute the playbooks.

NOTE: If your environment requires the use of a proxy, you will need to modify the proxy settings in the ansible-setup.sh script based on your environment:

HTTPS_PROXY="HTTPS_PROXY=http://16.100.211.43:8888"
needs_proxy=true

# Run the script to create virtualenv

You must specify the name of the directory for the virtualenv using the -d flag. You can also use the -b option to set the base directory (default is ~/virtualenvs).

cd ~/Anthos-on-SimpliVity

./prerequisite/ansible-setup.sh -d ansible-296

Running the script with the -h option produces the help output:

 ./prerequisite/ansible-setup.sh -h

This script is used to create a python3 virtualenv with ansible operating environment
Syntax: ansible-setup.sh [-b|d|h]
options:
-b     Base directory to create python virtualenvs. (Optional - Default is ~/virtualenvs)
-d     Name to use for virtualenv directory. (Required)
-h     Print this Help.

# Activate Python `virtualenv`

Before you run the playbooks, activate your Python virtualenv created by ansible-setup.sh, for example:

source /root/virtualenvs/ansible-296/bin/activate

# Software installed

The file prerequisites/ansible-venv-requirements.txt lists the versions of the software installed in the virtualenv.

ansible==2.9.6
certifi==2019.11.28
cffi==1.14.0
chardet==3.0.4
cryptography==2.8
docopt==0.6.2
idna==2.9
jmespath==0.9.4
Jinja2==2.11.1
MarkupSafe==1.1.1
netaddr==0.7.19 
prompt-toolkit==3.0.5
pycparser==2.20
pyflakes==2.1.1
Pygments==2.6.1
pyvim==3.0.2
pyvmomi==6.7.3
PyYAML==5.3.1
requests==2.23.0
six==1.14.0
selinux==0.2.1
urllib3==1.25.8
wcwidth==0.1.9

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