ansible

Ansible

Ansible playbooks for deploying frankenstack

Playbooks

• play_deploy_stack.yml - Primary playbook to orchestrate the correct deployment sequence of the entire stack

Supporting playbooks

• play_basic_prep_vm.yml - Basic prep for VM (timezone, standard packages, disk, turn off swap, setup docker)
• play_basic_update_and_reboot.yml - Update all packages and reboot
• play_bootstrap_swarm.yml - Deploy and configure docker swarm
• play_bootstrap_vsphere.yml - Clone VMs and run post-deployment procedures (configure networking, etc.)
• play_deploy_nsm.yml - Deploy NSM tools (Moloch, Suricata)
• play_undeploy_vsphere.yml - Remove existing inventory VMs

Private vars

You are inevitably going to have to define a whole bunch of variables that are specific to your organization, infrastucture and environment.

To name a few examples in our case:

• VMware URLs, credentials, directory structure, networks, datastore, etc.
• DNS for the stack
• Users, passwords, keys, hashes
• Optionally your known assets for NSM tagging

Getting started

ansible-playbook -i inventory/yellow.ini play_deploy_stack.yml