This is a simple example of provisioning an executable Spring Boot jar with Ansible.

We use Ansible to install the Java App on application servers (appservers group).

Required software:

• Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/) version 1.7.0 or later¹ - requires any virtualization software (e.g. VirtualBox)
• Ansible (https://ansible.com/) version 1.9 or later

You can download latest version of Vagrant from its homepage. Ansible can be installed using system package manager or pip.

Required hardware:

• Linux like operating system
• at least 2GB of RAM (each machine from this sample uses at most 512MB of RAM).

To test Ansible scripts you need to start vagrant machines. We provide Vagrantfile with suitable configuration. To start all machines invoke command:

vagrant up

Starting machines for the first time might take few minutes, since Vagrant has to download CentOS image.

Provisioning is done by Ansible. On application servers Ansible scripts install and configure Oracle Java JRE and the App. Invoke this command to provision all machines:

ansible-playbook -i inventory provisioning/site.yml -vv --ask-vault-pass

During the provisioning you will be prompted for Ansible Vault password, type: vault. It is used for decrypting vault.yml file which holds the credentials for HAProxy statistics page. You can view the statistics page by accessing following address: https://10.10.1.10:8080. Default credentials are - user: admin password: password.

Open your web browser, application is available at https://10.10.1.20/8080/.

1: Since v.1.7.0 Vagrant has started generating separate SSH key for each machine making provisioning process more difficult. In prior version there was only a single key for all of the machines - ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key. After v.1.7.0 each machine has its own key located in .vagrant/machines/<<machine name>>/virtualbox/private_key. For further details see: Using Vagrant and Ansible: Running Ansible Manually