Execute Ansible playbooks in Terraform main.tf file

[kaushal...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Is there a way to execute Ansible playbooks in Terraform main.tf file? For example I want to deploy nginx webserver inside GCP GCE VM Instance using Ansible playbook once GCP GCE VM Instance is provisioned using Terraform.

Please guide. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal

[Rilindo Foster]

Hi Kausal,

Depending on the provider, you can use cloud-init to:

- Invoke an installation of Ansible

- Download the Ansible code

- Run the code from a local installed instance of Ansible

- Rilindo

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[kaushal...@gmail.com]

Thanks Rilindo for the quick response and much appreciated. I will appreciate if you can provide me with a basic working example to understand it and I will implement it once i play around with it. Thanks in Advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal

[kaushal...@gmail.com]

Hi Rilindo,

I am using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Google Cloud as my primary cloud service provider. Please guide. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal

[Rilindo Foster]

Hi Kaushal,

You would want to review the Terraform documentation for google_compute_instance - likely metadata_startup_script is your answer:

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/resources/compute_instance#metadata_startup_script

Any more this goes beyond the scope of this mailing list, so I would recommend reaching to appropriate Hashicorp or GCP resources for more help.

- Rilindo

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[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 11:43 AM Rilindo Foster <ril...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Kausal,
>
> Depending on the provider, you can use cloud-init to:
>
> - Invoke an installation of Ansible
> - Download the Ansible code
> - Run the code from a local installed instance of Ansible
>
> - Rilindo

I've done this myself, especially to use consistent playbooks for
docker and Terraform and other virtualization tools without a shared
Ansible server. Not to *never* install the ansible package this way,
only install "ansible-core", because the ansible package is a bulky
conglomeration of roughly 100 add-on packages, none or nearly none of
which are of any use to such a micro ansible setup. Installing the
"ansible" package slows such installations quite a lot and soaks up
space not needed for a VM or docker image at all.

Nico Kadel-Garcia

> On Jul 23, 2022, at 10:22 AM, kaushal...@gmail.com <kaushal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to execute Ansible playbooks in Terraform main.tf file? For example I want to deploy nginx webserver inside GCP GCE VM Instance using Ansible playbook once GCP GCE VM Instance is provisioned using Terraform.
>
> Please guide. Thanks in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Kaushal
>
>
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