This repository provides playbooks associated with the Chaperone project for configuring and installing various Software Defined Data Center ("SDDC") scenarios.

One should note that the playbooks herein show general examples, though are used for their purposes. But where new scenarios, for example a specific model of automating a particular setup of certificates, or other use cases for automation, you will need to make new directories for your playbooks. In such cases, it is perfectly viable to create your own independently managed "playbooks" project and use a Local Manifest to remove this playbook repo and replace it with yours. For example:

NOTE: A non-defaulted variable, download_site, must be set in the vars/assets.yml file or by other mechanism prior to calling this playbook. The download_site must provide a valid URL base (e.g., http://mysite.com/downloads) supportable by the Ansible url module. The roles download files (e.g., ISO files or similar) therefrom. See the vars/assets.yml for the files of interest. In general, you should set the assets.yml file to point to all of the files you want to use for the deployment, which may be different versions than are shown in this example setup.

NOTE 2: By default, this playbook example sets the variable: download_files to false to prevent attempts to download invalid or unavailable URLs. The variable is set in vars/assets.yml, which upon fixing up the download_site and making available the files of interest at that site you should reset the download_files variable to true.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
  <remove-project name=ansible-playbooks-chaperone />
  <project path="ansible/playbooks" name="my_github_id/ansible-playbooks-chaperone" remote="github"/>
</manifest>

See the docs directory in the Chaperone project for detailed startup instructions for developers and users. Also, for a more automated developer setup on Photon OS or a Mac, see the documentation in devbox.

Intended for installing ansible on a host the correct way, with needed extra modules

Intended to setup the Deployment server. It does the following:

• install the webserver needed to
  • host the Chaperone UI,
  • host deployment assets (isos, ovas, ovfs needed to perform installation of various)
• clone local chaperone ansible resources (playbooks, roles, modules, etc.) to the Deployment Server for use via the UI
• install any extra tools needed on the Deployment Server

This set of playbooks is intended to be run from the Deployment Server to do the actual work of deploying various SDDC artifacts.

It is called by the UI after the UI has been used to specify the environment configuration. The UI generates the answersfile.yml that is referenced in all these playbooks.

Depricated This is intended to run against a photon machine to install docker and containerized versions of the CDS and DE.

Depricated For use in setting up a shared gerrit server for use in development environment.

Sets up a jenkins server and haproxy to expose it.

For setting up dnsmasq and iptables in a lab setup.

Depricated For setting up a basic photon vm.

• Getting an error like /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found

Try running the following on the remote host: apt-get -y install python-simplejson and re-try the playbook.

See for more info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32429259/ansible-fails-with-bin-sh-1-usr-bin-python-not-found

• when running chaperone-ui/base.yml chgrp failed: failed to look up group tscanlan

Chances are your local user is not vmware, and it does not exist on the remote side. The error is in sshkeys, trying to set permissions to your uid/gid.

Fix: pass -e 'sshkeys_user=vmware' to the ansible-playbook command

ansible-playbook  -vv -e 'sshkeys_user=vmware'  -i inventory base.yml

Intended for installing ansible on a host the correct way, with needed extra modules

Intended to setup the Deployment server. It does the following:

• install the webserver needed to
  • host the Chaperone UI,
  • host deployment assets (isos, ovas, ovfs needed to perform installation of various)
• clone local chaperone ansible resources (playbooks, roles, modules, etc.) to the Deployment Server for use via the UI
• install any extra tools needed on the Deployment Server

This set of playbooks is intended to be run from the Deployment Server to do the actual work of deploying various SDDC artifacts.

It is called by the UI after the UI has been used to specify the environment configuration. The UI generates the answersfile.yml that is referenced in all these playbooks.

Depricated This is intended to run against a photon machine to install docker and containerized versions of the CDS and DE.

Depricated For use in setting up a shared gerrit server for use in development environment.

Sets up a jenkins server and haproxy to expose it.

For setting up dnsmasq and iptables in a lab setup.

Depricated For setting up a basic photon vm.

• Getting an error like /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found

Try running the following on the remote host: apt-get -y install python-simplejson and re-try the playbook.

See for more info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32429259/ansible-fails-with-bin-sh-1-usr-bin-python-not-found

• when running chaperone-ui/base.yml chgrp failed: failed to look up group tscanlan

Chances are your local user is not vmware, and it does not exist on the remote side. The error is in sshkeys, trying to set permissions to your uid/gid.

Fix: pass -e 'sshkeys_user=vmware' to the ansible-playbook command

ansible-playbook  -vv -e 'sshkeys_user=vmware'  -i inventory base.yml

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