It LIVES! The Ansible Automation lab is back! Time to Automate some switch configs! Upon getting the switches configured with their IPs, I got right into the Ansible Inventory File to set both the [all:vars] to set the user/pass/os/connection, and all my different switches in their very similar to my previous lab and I got … Continue reading Ansible / GNS3 Labbing – Configure and verify Hosts in Inventory file, explore Ansible Modules, install GIT in Ubuntu, and wrap up for tonight!
Category: Ansible-Lab-Setup
How to fix VMware Workstation VM freezing issue when running GNS3 along side an Ubuntu VM for an Automation Lab – Time to lab!!!
Depending on VMware Workstation version, you may not get an error dialogue! The lack of labbing Ansible has been a struggle of VMware Workstation 15 freezing up with no errors, the Ubuntu VM just wouldn't load when GNS3 was running, and if I starting the Ubuntu VM first GNS3 was throwing errors that it couldn't … Continue reading How to fix VMware Workstation VM freezing issue when running GNS3 along side an Ubuntu VM for an Automation Lab – Time to lab!!!
Ansible and GNS3 – Configuring an “Ansible Inventory File” on my Ubuntu “Ansible Control Node” to setup a GNS3 / Ansible home lab!
Time to do some GNS3 Switch Automation via Ansible on my Ubuntu Workstation VM! This is the Topology I threw together to begin with, the 3rd octect changes with Workstation NAT / DHCP on vmnet8, I still haven't figured it out but I'd rather spend time labbing. The Ubuntu "Ansible Control Node" and "AutoVM1" to … Continue reading Ansible and GNS3 – Configuring an “Ansible Inventory File” on my Ubuntu “Ansible Control Node” to setup a GNS3 / Ansible home lab!
Ansible – Some basics / theory before diving into Ansible Labbing in VMware and a GNS3 Network!
I remember Ansible pointing to Python 2.x being an issue last time as well, but I do a quick lab demo at the bottom to show I am all set to launch out of the dry walls of text, and back into the lab in the coming days / posts before I take my (now … Continue reading Ansible – Some basics / theory before diving into Ansible Labbing in VMware and a GNS3 Network!
Ansible – Lab Setup using 3 VM’s running Ubuntu for a full Ansible Automation lab up and running in about one hour! :)
Pictured above is an Ansible Ping verifying Connectivity to my two VM Hosts (I was so excited about getting this working properly I had to share, no idea if this is well known knowledge, but wanted to post / sticky it just in case!) First you will need to have a main VM, which I … Continue reading Ansible – Lab Setup using 3 VM’s running Ubuntu for a full Ansible Automation lab up and running in about one hour! 🙂