How to use the Ansible role ansible-role-virt-lightning

What does it do

This is an Ansible role to install, configure and test Virt-Lightning.

Virt-Lightning can quickly deploy new virtual machines using libvirt. It also prepares the Ansible inventory file.

Following tasks will be executed by the role:

1. Install the virt-lightning dependencies including git, libvirt, python modules, rsync (some are distribution specific).
2. Configure libvirt on the system.
3. Create the virt-lightning environment in ~/virt-lightning.
4. Configure virt-lightning (~/.config/virt-lightning/config.ini).
5. Prepare an image
6. Test that virt-lightning is able to create, run, and destroy a virtual machine.

Requirements

None.

Role variables

• Skip the tests (default to false):

virt_lightning_run_tests: true

• Configure the URI of the Qemu system:

virt_lightning_qemu_uri: qemu:///system

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  vars_files:
    - vars/main.yml
  roles:
    - { role: virt-lightning/ansible-role-virt-lightning }

License

Apache License 2.0

Author Information

This role was created in 2019 by Goneri Le Bouder and the virt-lightning team.