Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

Creating a test environment with QEMU and KVM

To be able to learn Ansible, we will need to make quite a few playbooks and run them.

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Doing it directly on your computer will be very risky. For this reason, I would suggest using virtual machines.

It's possible to create a test environment with cloud providers in a few seconds, but often it is more useful to have those machines locally. To do so, we will use Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) with Quick Emulator (QEMU).

The first thing will be installing qemu-kvm and virt-install. On Fedora it will be enough to run:

$ sudo dnf install -y @virtualization

On Red Hat/CentOS/Scientific Linux/Unbreakable Linux it will be enough to run:

$ sudo yum install -y qemu-kvm virt-install virt-manager

If you use ...