Introduction

This is heavily inspired by glenndehaan's original code to provision a vm on HyperV.

The code has been modified to provision VMs by:

• Cloning a disk
• Setting up the IP
• Powering on the VM
• Wait for WinRM port to be available

The configuration is stored as an environment yaml file, such as vars/sit.yml. This is meant to allow the user to define the environments such as DEV/UAT/SIT and its associated network information for each vm.

Requirements

• Win2012R2 vhd image with WinRM enabled. You can use Ansible's ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1
• MS SQL 2014 Express installer.
• .Net Framework >= 4.0, if you want to run OrchardCMS, inclduding the setup.exe
• OrchardCMS is downloaded from github releases

Playbooks

Creation of VM

There is a sample create_vm.yml playbook:

• Provision a sit environment with 2 VMS and create the necessary groups: web and db
• Configure static ips
• wait_for WinRM is up before exiting

Building Golden Template

The playbook build_golden.yml is use to install the necessary software using roles. After building the image, you can then use the vhd in your environment yaml file.

Deploying Application

prov_web_db.yml is to provision the sample App_Data and restore a database from a backup from templates. The roles to install the IIS and MS-SQL have been disabled by default.

Deleting the VMs

Use delete_vm.yml to delete the vms and clean out the disk.

Running the playbook

You can change enviornment by either editing the var/ yaml files or using -e option in the command line.

Ansible Tower can also be used by using a survey form.

Script

There is a bin/run.ps1 sample script that calls Ansible Tower API to launch the Job Teamplate and monitor the job till it exits.

Credits

The various roles and PowerShell scripts are adopted from:

• https://github.com/bennojoy/ansible-win-sql2014-express
• https://github.com/glenndehaan/ansible-win_hyperv_guest
• https://github.com/nitzmahone/orchard_cms