Add crc-cloud Ansible role

[danpawlik]

The Ansible tool might handle in better way how to deploy the CRC cloud.

[praveenkumar]

Ansible is not able to programmatically set infra and then provision which pulumi provides. ( cc @adrianriobo for more info around using pulumi over ansible)

[adrianriobo]

@danpawlik do you mean the steps insde the VM to set and ensure the cluster is running or the provisioning?

[danpawlik]

So there can be a basic way to run the ansible to setup the cluster.
PoC command:

git clone https://github.com/crc-org/crc-cloud

PULL_SECRET=$(cat $PULL_SECRET_FILE_PATH)
HOST_IP=$(ip route get 1.2.3.4 | awk '{print $7}' | head -n1)
SYSTEM_USER=core
HOSTNAME=crc.dev

cat << EOF > /var/home/core/inventory.yaml
---
all:
  hosts:
    $HOSTNAME:
      ansible_port: 22
      ansible_host: $HOST_IP
      ansible_user: $SYSTEM_USER
  vars:
    openshift_pull_secret: |
      $PULL_SECRET
EOF

cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

for host in localhost $HOSTNAME $HOST_IP; do
    ssh-keyscan -H $host >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
done

podman create --name test --network host -v "/var/home/core/.kube/:/home/user/.kube:z" -v "/var/home/core/.ssh:/home/user/.ssh:z" -v "/var/home/core/inventory.yaml:/home/user/inventory.yaml" -v "/var/home/come/crc-cloud:/home/user/crc-cloud:z"   fedora:40 sleep inf

podman start test
podman exec -it test bash

# inside the container
yum install -y ansible-core sudo
useradd -U -m -s /bin/bash -u 1000 user ; echo "user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers ; chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers ; chmod g+w /etc/passwd
chown -R user:user /home/user
sudo su - user

cd crc-cloud
ansible-playbook -i /home/user/inventory.yaml ansible/playbook.yaml

With that way, there is no need to use crc-cloud binary to spawn instance (check issue: #192). The CI would be able to take crc.qcow2 image to the cloud provider, connect to it , then run the ansible playbook.

[danpawlik]

So in the README file is early how-to deploy crc cloud using the Ansible role that will be running inside the container. With that way, we don't need to wait #192 that propably it is not a priority for you.