Having trouble using Ansible to deploy Quantum Mobile to AWS EC2 Instance. I'm not sure how to configure a setting called "vagrant" or "vagrant-ssh"

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Here is the feedback in the shell. I'm not sure how to configure or install this vagrant thing. I couldn't find any clear instructions online. Any help would be appreciated.

  (quantum_env) user@localComputer quantum-mobile % tox -e ansible -- --extra-vars "build_hosts_aws"



...
ansible run-test: commands[0] | ansible-playbook playbook-build.yml --extra-vars build_hosts_aws
[WARNING]: Invalid characters were found in group names but not replaced, use
-vvvv to see details

PLAY [Install ansible prerequisites] *******************************************

TASK [test configuration] ******************************************************
Sunday 14 February 2021  14:00:22 -0500 (0:00:00.040)       0:00:00.040 *******
ok: [vagrant-ssh] =>
  msg: RUNNING PLAYBOOK FOR 'Quantum Mobile' VERSION '20.11.2a'

TASK [testing ansible environment] *********************************************
Sunday 14 February 2021  14:00:22 -0500 (0:00:00.029)       0:00:00.070 *******
ok: [vagrant-ssh] =>
  msg: Connecting to host 'vagrant-ssh' as user 'vagrant'

TASK [Make local dist folder] **************************************************
Sunday 14 February 2021  14:00:22 -0500 (0:00:00.034)       0:00:00.105 *******
ok: [vagrant-ssh]

TASK [marvel-nccr.ansible_prerequisites : update cache] ************************
Sunday 14 February 2021  14:00:23 -0500 (0:00:00.369)       0:00:00.475 *******
fatal: [vagrant-ssh]: UNREACHABLE! => changed=false
  msg: 'Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Can''t open user config file vagrant-ssh: No such file or directory'
  unreachable: true

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
vagrant-ssh                : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=1    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

Sunday 14 February 2021  14:00:23 -0500 (0:00:00.026)       0:00:00.501 *******
===============================================================================
Make local dist folder -------------------------------------------------- 0.37s
testing ansible environment --------------------------------------------- 0.03s
test configuration ------------------------------------------------------ 0.03s
marvel-nccr.ansible_prerequisites : update cache ------------------------ 0.03s
ERROR: InvocationError for command /Users/user/quantum-mobile/.tox/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook playbook-build.yml --extra-vars build_hosts_aws (exited with code 4)
___________________________________ summary ____________________________________
ERROR:   ansible: commands failed

UPDATE: I was able to install Vagrant from the link but I was not able to correctly install VirtualBox. When I try to do vagrant up I get the following error message

(quantum_env) localhost:quantum-mobile user$ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Checking if box 'bento/ubuntu-18.04' version '202012.21.0' is up to date... ==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces... There was an error while executing VBoxManage, a CLI used by Vagrant for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["hostonlyif", "create"]

Stderr: 0%... Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the host-only adapter VBoxManage: error: VBoxNetAdpCtl: Error while adding new interface: failed to open /dev/vboxnetctl: No such file or directory VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component HostNetworkInterfaceWrap, interface IHostNetworkInterface VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleCreate(HandlerArg *)" at line 95 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp

samtoddler samtoddler · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-14T19:31:04

From the documentation

Prerequisites & Installation

Vagrant >= 2.0.1
VirtualBox >= 6.1.6
Python >= 3.6

You can install vagrant from here Installing Vagrant and VirtualBox from here

Once you install vagrant and VirtualBox you can launch the machine on your by

vagrant up

There is a Vagrantfile in the main repo for ansible-playbooks.

After that you can simply can configure vagrant-ssh as described in the documentation

vagrant ssh-config > vagrant-ssh
tox -e ansible

Depending on how you want to run the ansible-playbook you need to modify few parameters in inventory

The error you see stems from the following configuration in the inventory

vagrant-provision:
    # this private network IP will be created by `vagrant up`
    cloud_platform: virtualbox
    ansible_host: 192.168.111.222
    ansible_user: vagrant
vagrant-ssh:
    # requires first running `vagrant ssh-config > vagrant-ssh`
    cloud_platform: virtualbox
    ansible_host: default
    ansible_ssh_common_args: "-F vagrant-ssh"
    ansible_user: vagrant

If you want to use aws machine you need to update the IP address here.

    # To connect to VMs you should change the host IP and provide an SSH key file
aws:
    cloud_platform: aws
    ansible_host: 34.227.10.49  # change this
    ansible_ssh_common_args: -i ./keys/quantum-mobile.pem -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no
    ansible_user: ubuntu
    vm_headless: true
    add_user_public_key: "{{ lookup('file', './keys/user-key.pub') }}

For launching the instance you can refer here

Seems like the like the link to launch instance is broken.

You can follow this to Launch an Amazon EC2 Instance

Having trouble using Ansible to deploy Quantum Mobile to AWS EC2 Instance. I'm not sure how to configure a setting called "vagrant" or "vagrant-ssh"

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