lab

Overview Whilst this blog article/lab is aimed primarily at Red Hatters, and partners, who can self provision an OpenStack (OSP) Sandbox via Red Hat’s RHPDS it may also be useful to others working both with OpenStack and Ansible Agnostic Deployer aka AgnosticD. I’ll follow this up, shortly, with a second blog article repeating the same exercise but deploying from a laptop running Linux or macOS. I’ll assume you have either self provisioned, or been provided with, an OpenStack Sandbox instance and have the necessary ssh login details etc.

Overview Virtualenvs make considerable sense, discussed in more depth here, in any complex python or Ansible environment. In the HOWTO, or lab, we’ll quickly get a python 3 virtualenv up and running on a RHEL or CentOS system. This article is written making use of one of Red Hat’s Lab Environments running RHEL, in this case on AWS, however this should run fine on CentOS standalone systems. Obviously your repo configurations may vary so adjust to taste, I’ve assumed a pretty minimal install and have opted for CentOS available repos.