ansible-local-test-machine

Simple Server

Simple Server Setup

Windows

• For the Windows machine without wsl2, I create a separate ansible control machine and work from there

Windows WSL2

• Install Vagrant on both the Linux machine on WSL and Windows
• In WSL Linux run: vagrant plugin install virtualbox_WSL2
• In WSL linux, export these things (I would add them to .bashrc or .zshrc file:

  export VAGRANT_WSL_ENABLE_WINDOWS_ACCESS="1"
  export VAGRANT_WSL_WINDOWS_ACCESS_USER_HOME_PATH="/mnt/c/Users/username/"
  export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/c/Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox"

• with this, we can use the ansible

Linux

• For Linux, vagrant provision with Ansible might be easier

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "geerlingguy/rockylinux8"

  # Provisioning configuration for Ansible
  config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
    ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
  end
end