Intro to Ansible - Having difficulty getting set up

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I really want to follow along with this course because I like Daniel and Justin (the whole crew, actually!) but I'm not sure how to set up Virtualbox + Ansible on a Windows 10 host. I'm talking about the Creating the Environment section.

Also, Justin is using mac OSX and he shows how how downloaded and installed Vagrant, but I'm not even sure what he did or how I can follow along with Windows 10. I do want to host Linux guest machines though for this lab.

Could someone help me get set up?

Hey Armand,
First, thanks for the kind words. I created the Vagrant environment to keep the setup minimal, but that doesn't mean that creating that environment on Windows is easy. 😃 Let me see if I can give you some assistance (at a high level):

• Download and Install Virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads). Make sure that you are picking Windows as your target.
• Open a PowerShell session (make sure that you right-click and run as an Administrator) and make sure that you have disabled Hyper-V. (https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/installation/ the copy and past script is at the bottom of that page)
  • Before doing this, make sure that you are not using Hyper-V for important application. If this is your personal computer and you do not know, then there is a good chance that you aren't using Hyper-V. That still isn't a 100% metric, but a good rule of thumb.
• Download and install Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/installation/)
• Open PowerShell (I use bash on my Mac, but PowerShell is a good alternative in Windows)
  • Navigate to the folder that you have downloaded the Vagrantfile from the show
  • Enter vagrant up
  • After all provisioning is complete, you should be able to follow along with me as I use one of the virtual machines as my control machine. Remember, once inside any of these machines, then you will also being bash as a your shell.

Let me know if that helps.

Justin Dennison

Hello, Justin.

Sorry for the late response. I got the vagrant environment set up! Thank you.

Another question: Are there files included for this course? I click the show resources tab and I don't see any files in there.

Thanks,

Armand

Hey Armand,
No worries. If you look at the 'Overview' episode, the show files are attached there. Let me know if you have trouble finding them.

Justin Dennison