Welcome to my Arctiq expedition!

• Leveraging Terraform and/or Ansible tooling;
• Automate the deployment of a compute environment

• Automate the deployment of a containerized application
• Demonstrate the functioning application
• Make the process repeatable (tear down, stand up)
• Present your tech in a lunch and learn style

• Deploy a multi-tier application - Think simple LAMP stacks.

tasks:
  - name: Gather epic equip. Need toque and mittens, eh?
    equip:
      name: "{{ item }}"
      state: present
    loop:
      - toque
      - mittens
      - gloves
      - goggles
      - helmet
      - headlamp
      - socks
      - thermalshirt
      - thermalunderwear
      - snowpants
      - snowjacket

Some log entries from my journey can be found in LOGBOOK.md.

Before the Ansible Playbooks can be used to deploy to the Google Cloud follow the steps in the next subsections.

Once you have signed up for an account, access the Google Cloud Console and create a service account and download its YAML-file.

The YAML-file is used to authenticate against the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

This environment requires kubectl to be present on the Ansible master and an environment variable to manage GCP and Google Kubernetes Engines (GKE).

These two scripts scripts/set-environment.sh and scripts/get-kubectl.sh take care of preparing your environment. Source the first script with source scripts/set-environment.sh and execute the second script sudo bash scripts/get-kubectl.sh.

Furthermore some Ansible modules require specific Python packages. For Arch Linux these are:

• ansible ( >= 2.6)
• python-requests (Ansible module gcp_compute_instance)
• python-google-auth (Ansible module gcp_compute_instance)
• python-pyaml (Ansible module k8s)
• python-pip
• openshift (Ansible module k8s)

Commands for Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -Sy ansible python-requests python-google-auth python-pyaml python-pip
sudo pip install openshift -v