A Multi-VM Vagrant environment for Developing and Testing Ansible Roles

This is a multi node Vagrant environment which represents a real life Ansible scenario with one Ansible management node and different Linux OS nodes (Ansible clients): Ansible figure

Supported Operating Systems

The supported clients are:

  • Alpine 3.14,
  • Alpine 3.15,
  • Alpine 3.15,
  • Alpine 3.17,
  • Enterprise Linux 7,
  • Enterprise Linux 8,
  • Enterprise Linux 9,
  • Debian 9 (Stretch),
  • Debian 10 (Buster),
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye),
  • Fedora 35,
  • Fedora 36.
  • Fedora 37.
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver),
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa),
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish).

Purpose

It is desigend for developing and testing Ansible playbooks and roles on these operating systems. The configuration can be easily changed to support other Linux distributions as well. VirtualBox or KVM with Qemu and libvirt can be used as the Vagrant provider (hypervisor).

Of course, you can use this environment to develop and test other things like Java applications, but that's not the focus of this documentation.