The goal of this repository is to provide a simple, reproducible way to deploy FreeIPA on a Fedora CoreOS server inside of VMware with a Static IP. The server is deployed with 2 systemd services. The first service clones the freeipa-container repository and then builds the image based on the latest Dockerfile. The second systemd service will run the FreeIPA container.

Start by editing the group_vars/all.yml file:

• Set the vCenter variables

  1. IP/Host Name of vCenter
  2. vCenter Network
  3. Datastore name
  4. Datacenter name
  5. username and passwords of vCenter Account
  6. Absoluate folder path - e.g /DataCenter/vm/Folder/
  7. VM Power state after being deployed

• Configure your Fedora CoreOS URL and govc version.

  1. Set the Fedora CoreOS stream version. stable is the default

• Configure your FreeIPA VM Settings

  1. VM and Host Name
  2. IP Addr, Gateway, Net Mask, DNS
  3. Number of CPUs
  4. Amount of Memory in MB
  5. Size of the HDD in GBs

• Configure your FreeIPA Admin and DS Password

1. vSphere ESXi and vCenter 6.7 or 7.0 installed.
2. A datacenter created with a vSphere host added to it and a datastore exists that has adequate capacity.
3. Ansible (preferably latest) on the machine where this repo is cloned.
   1. Before you install Ansible, install the epel-release, run yum -y install epel-release

# Deploy the Lab and all components
ansible-playbook deploy-freeipa.yml

skip_ova=true - Skips downloading and deploying the OVA if previous deployed to vCenter. redeploy=true - Deletes existing FreeIPA vm

1. Necessary Linux packages installed for the installation
2. Necessary folders [bin, downloads] created
3. govc downloaded and extracted
4. FCOS ova downloaded to the downloads folder
5. FreeIPA VM is created in the designated folder and (in state of) poweredon

Morgan Peterman