Show HN: Ansible Playground

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Great start! You'll find out the Ansible VM serves no real purpose as you can install Ansible on the host. Also you could use a YML config file to define your environment. And you should have a look at dynamic inventory scripts.

> You'll find out the Ansible VM serves no real purpose as you can install Ansible on the host.

Useful for testing Ansible when someone isn't ready to install and needs to evaluate first.

If this is the problem then virtualenv is a better solution. Now that I think about it it could be useful on platforms where Ansible is not available (Windows?).

A few more comments: you could use pip instead of apt-get for an up-to-date version of Ansible, and you may want to create a Virtualbox share to access the project from the Ansible VM. Also does it actually work? I'm asking because I can't see anything to sort out the SSH credentials.

Rather than installing it on the host , I want to evaluate Ansible in an virtual environment , I have a pod of 20 odd linux servers, mostly virtual in a inhouse server room and a few on amazon cloud , I created this playground to see if Ansible will work for me.

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