CentOS 5 Vagrant environment with Ansible provisioning

This environment sets up a Python 2 Virtualenv with a suitable Ansible version to manage a CentOS 5 host.

The default Python version in CentOS 5 is Python 2.4, but Ansible 2.4 and higher requires at least Python 2.6 in the managed host. More details in,

https://www.ansible.com/blog/using-ansible-to-manage-rhel-5-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow

Requirements

• vagrant
• virtualbox
• make
• python2 (With module build support)
• virtualenv

How to use

Only two Vagrant actions need to be managed, up and provision.

Instead of vagrant up,

$ make up

And instead of vagrant provision,

$ make provision

The Vagrant environment is set up to provision the machine using the playbook,

ansible/playbook.yml

There is an initial role, base-packages,

ansible/roles/base-packages

It will install the list of packages provided in the variable base_packages,

vars:
  base_packages:
  - vim-enhanced
  - rsync
  - screen

The target clean,

$ make clean

Removes the virtualenv in ansible/venv.