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.
- 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
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_forWinRM is up before exiting
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.
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.
Use delete_vm.yml to delete the vms and clean out the disk.
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.
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.
The various roles and PowerShell scripts are adopted from:
