
Instaling and using Ansible from source for bifrost has several drawbacks, mainly due to how Ansible's 'ansible/hacking/env-setup' script mangles with PATH and PYTHONPATH, which complicates running it as part of other scripts. Besides, cloning the whole repo and it's submodules is somewhat longer. The main reason why we were doing that at all was a necessity to install some additional Ansible modules from newer Ansible versions, which we dropped right into the source of Ansible code - but this does not have to be so. Luckily for us, all Ansible versions we target to support can load modules from 'library' directory next to playbooks/roles, and we already use that for 'os_ironic_facts' module. The need to install a particular module can be assessed by running ad-hoc 'ansible' command against localhost with the module in question and without any arguments ('ansible localhost -m <module>'): - if the module is available in Ansible, the stderr will contain "changed" substring (as part of the standard module output) - if the module is absent form Ansible, "changed" string will be absent from stderr too, in which case we can download the module from github directly into 'playbooks/library' directory. This patch removes possibility of installing Ansible from source, and always installs a released Ansible version via pip. If not installed into venv, Ansible will be installed in user's ~/.local directory via 'pip install --user'. The missing but needed modules are downloaded as described above. Some level of backward compatibility is provided: - when the ANSIBLE_GIT_BRANCH has form of 'stable-X.Y', the env-setup.sh script will do the next best thing and install latest available Ansible version of X.Y.w.z Also, ANSIBLE_PIP_VERSION can now accept a full pip version specifier: - if ANSIBLE_PIP_VERSION starts with a digit, this exact version will be installed (as 'ansible==X.Y.W.Z') - otherwize this whole variable is assigned as Ansible version specifier for pip, e.g env ANSIBLE_PIP_VERSION="<2.2" env-setup.sh will result in pip being called as pip install -U "ansible<2.2" Closes-Bug: #1663562 Change-Id: I2c9f47abbbb6740d03978f684ad2c876749655b7
Vagrant support for developers
Bifrost vagrant file for developers can be found in the
tools/vagrant_dev_env
directory. Running
vagrant up
from within this folder will bring up an Ubuntu
Trusty box with Bifrost installed.
By default, the VM will have three interfaces:
- eth0 - connected to a NAT network
- eth1 - connected to Host-only network named: vboxnet1
- eth2 - bridged - adapter must be set in Vagrantfile
Walkthrough done on OS X
Setup vagrant by:
- Installing git
- Installing virtualbox
- Installing vagrant
- Installing ansible
Configure Vagrant with the correct box:
vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64
Clone bifrost repo:
git clone https://github.com/openstack/bifrost.git
Change into the bifrost directory:
cd bifrost/tools/vagrant_dev_env
Edit the Vagrantfile:
- Change the
bifrost.vm.network
public_network
value to a valid network interface to allow Bare Metal connectivity - Change
public_key
to correct key name - Change
network_interface
to match your needs
Boot the VM with:
vagrant up
Installation Options
Ansible is installed within the VM directly from source or from the
path set by ANSIBLE_GIT_URL
. You can modify the path of
installation by setting ANSIBLE_INSTALL_ROOT
environment
variable. The default value is /opt/stack
. When set in the
host, this variable will also be set as an environment variable inside
the VM for use by test scripts.
Note:
Only the ansible installation path is configurable at this point using the environment variable. All other dependencies will still continue to cloned under
/opt/stack
.