vCenter packer ansible inspec

Scope

This repo is the core example pipeline bringing vCenter, packer, ansible and inspec together.

Process

1. Prepare your Jenkins instance. You'll need docker, git, sudo access for at least the jenkins user.
2. Make sure your variables.json has at least master set up correctly. Run through the pipeline at least once, with nginx only commented in the playbook.yml
3. Have your debian10-template or the like set up with sudo for your login, and open-vm-tools already installed on the template.

Usage

Pre-Reqs

1. ansible installed
2. packer installed
3. packer-builder-vphere installed from here

Running the pipeline

1. Clone this repository and make any changes to the Jenkinsfile
2. Take the Jenkinsfile import it into your jenkins instance.
3. Edit the following from the variables.json example
4. Run the pipeline with changes you may want.

Presentation/Script

1. Clone the debian10-template to debian-gold to start with a "blank slate."
2. Run the pipeline with master first. origin/master as a parameter.
3. You should show off you having the 2 templates now, debian-working and debian-gold-$DATE
4. Rename debian-gold-$DATE to debian-gold, and delete debian-working.
5. Create a PR with with the first part of the playbook.yml uncommented.
6. Update with the second part of the playbook, the ssh-key.
7. Update with the third part of the playbook for the bad-actor, show off the InSpec failure.

License & Authors

If you would like to see the detailed LICENCE click here.

• Author: JJ Asghar awesome@ibm.com
• Author: Will Plusnick pwplusni@us.ibm.com

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