Questions tagged [provisioning]
Provisioning is the act of preparing a system to allow it to provide new services to its consumers. Questions about the automated creation of systems through technologies such as Terraform, Cloud Formation and Azure Resource Manager should have this tag.
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How to set database cluster arguments (like password) with terraform?
I deploy a digitalocean_database_cluster with Terraform. It's working and I can connect to it with the username and password that Terraform generates in .tfstate
I want to set a concrete username, ...
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How to use Vagrant and Vagrantfiles on the beta version of Virtualbox on a Mac with the M1 or M2 chip?
I am trying to recreate some of the previous DevOps projects that I had previously created while using Parallels as my virtualization tool.
However, I saw that last month that Oracle released a new ...
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What are minimum permissions required for an IAM user to provision EC2 instances?
I want to provision an EC2 instance with Ansible. So for that purpose I want to create a separate IAM user to keep things clear.
I can assign the full EC2 access to the user. But I don't want any ...
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How can I provision using Vagrant if I need a system restart in the middle of the provisioning process?
Good day to you all,
How can I approach the following case:
System: CentOS Stream/7-8; RHEL; Fedora
Vagrant up (init a machine) with shell script provisioning as a file.
Case: I go for a full update, ...
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Provisioning meaning
Provisioning is the process of setting up IT infrastructure. It can
also refer to the steps required to manage access to data and
resources, and make them available to users and systems.
Provisioning ...
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How to Automate VM provisioning and setup using code?
Here is what I want to achieve.
I write code(Java, NodeJs, Go) to tell the program
which Cloud Provider to choose- AWS/Azure
write code to create a instance , lets say AWS - EC2 instance under which ...
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Provision and configure Azure VM in private subnet (file, remote-exec, cloud-init, etc.)
(Originally posted to discuss.hashicorp.com)
I’m setting up a basic multi-tier infrastructure composed of two Azure VMs:
Web server (VM1) with public IP and private IP (subnet1)
Data server (VM2) in ...
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AWX cannot find matching host
I have on premise AWX and inventory (instances on AWS). To provision newly launched instance I want to use provisioning callbacks.
But when executing this command from the instance
$ curl -v -H '...
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Provisioning raspbery pi sdcard
I was searching for a tool suitable for provisioning sdcard for raspberry pi.
I've successfully managed to implement most of it using Ansible playbook. Need only some time for last polishing.
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How to send local files using Terraform Cloud as remote backend?
I am creating AWS EC2 instance and I am using Terraform Cloud as backend.
in ./main.tf:
terraform {
required_version = "~> 0.12"
backend "remote" {
hostname = "app.terraform.io"
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Ansible - Copy multiple files
I am trying to copy multiple files to the target like so:
tasks:
- name: "Copying files"
copy:
src: files/{{ item }}
dest: /my/folder/
with_items:
- file.txt
The files ...
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Cannot install Ansible
So I am creating a packer template for docker with the image php:7.0-apache.
I added a shell provisioner where I try to install ansible so I can provision the image:
{
"type": "shell",
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I'm trying to run `vagrant provision` on PowerShell Window for Ansible playbook
Here is what it replies:
Windows is not officially supported for the Ansible Control Machine.
Please check https://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html#control-machine-requirements
What should I ...
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How do I bootstrap an alpine image to work with a private repo proxy behind TLS?
I am in a corporate environment behind a gateway that does DPI and often replaces the TLS certificate of most online resources with our corporate certificate. Many of our developers use images based ...
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Proper way to showcase multi-container web app to customers
I have a web app consisting of multiple services (authentication service, database, main web app..), and each of these services can run in container.
Currently, when a customer ask for a demo, I am ...
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How do I automate population of known_hosts and authorized_keys?
This is a question that may be easier answered on askubuntu or, perhaps, serverfault, but it arises in the context of automated provisioning, so I figured that it's more appropriate here.
I am ...
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Open source private cloud VM provisioning for container workload
There is a new generation of tooling developed that tries to integrate different IaaS providers (Azure/AWS/GCE/DigitalOcean) into one "infrastructure codebase". It's dubbed "Cloud Native" and it's ...
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Tools for provisioning windows testing environment on Hyper-V [closed]
I'm looking for tools that would help our team create and manage environments for our internal testing and debugging.
Each environment consists of single windows server and multiple windows clients. ...
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Why screen folder in /var/run disappears in Docker container after running Ansible playbook?
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I've got the following Dockerfile:
FROM ansible/ansible:ubuntu1604py3
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
RUN pip3 install ansible
RUN printf '[local]\r\nlocalhost ansible_python_interpreter="...
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Other tools to provision virtual machines
I've been using vagrant for provisioning virtual machines (Linux only) and so far I've been happy with it. The two things I dislike about it - the hardcoded dependency on the user vagrant as well as ...
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Actions Performed During FAI Repository Task Do Not Persist
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My hook script for the repository task (see the list of FAI tasks) doesn't seem to be having an effect on the final state of installation. Why not? Is this the expected behavior? If so, why? ...
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Installing Packages from a 3rd Party Repository with FAI
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I want to install Docker CE on a Debian Stretch system using Fully Automatic Installation (FAI). The official Docker documentation recommends that you install Docker using their package ...
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difference between packer and matchbox
I have this setup to standup a baremetal machine:
Terraform-> Matchbox
\-> Chef-> Docker
My colleague has a setup to standup VMs in AWS:
Terraform-> Packer-> Chef-> ...
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How to test VM provisioning script without provisioning
Currently I'm on a state that testing costs me money and a lot of time...
Background: I'm deploying VMs at softlayer and using a post-deployment script(bash) that will install every software that I ...
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Deploying to VSphere with Packer and/or Terraform?
Scenario:
Creating multiple VMs and deploying them to VSphere. Current development uses Packer and Ansible to provision a Fusion VM, with the aim of using Terraform to deploy to VSphere.
Issue:
I'...
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How should I store my environment variables?
This is a very broad question about methods and advice regarding environment variables / structure. But ultimately I'm looking for answers for the very specific question of 'How should I store my ...
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How to test provisioning and configuration in Ansible setup?
Looking at trying to build some resilience into our Ansible setup which deals with provisioning and configuration.
I understand a few methods of testing on the configuration side of things but I'm ...
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