Forcing ansible playbooks to concrete hosts (and vagrant version)

This is a fast workaround to force to run a playbook to a concrete host.
Important: You must to have the host added to the ansible host inventory.

You will need to convert hosts to a variable. From:

- name: Installing base server template
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: true
  roles:
   - base
   - ntpenabled


To:

- name: Installing base server template
  hosts: '{{ hosts }}'
  gather_facts: true
  roles:
   - base
   - ntpenabled

And now, in terminal for running the playbook:

ansible-playbook <playbook.yml> --extra-vars="hosts=<ip_or_hostname_here>"


and for vagrant:

  config.vm.define "test" do |test|
     test.vm.box = "chef/centos-6.6"
     test.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.1.1.13"
     test.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
       ansible.playbook = "ansible/playbooks/base.yml"
       ansible.sudo = true
       ansible.extra_vars = {
          hosts: "ip_or_hostname_here"
       }
     end
  end

Ansible + Vagrant: forget your interactive prompts (SOLVED)

If you have a playbook with something like this:

- name: Installing test box
  hosts: all   
  connection: paramiko
  vars_prompt:
     - name: "hosthname"
       hosthname: "Give me a hostname:"
       private: no

  gather_facts: true
  roles:
   - base
   - redisenabled
   - nodebase

 And you are trying to run it with vagrant following this Vagrantfile piece:

  config.vm.define "test" do |test|
     test.vm.box = "chef/centos-6.6"
     test.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.1.1.13"
     test.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
       ansible.playbook = "ansible/playbooks/test.yml"
       ansible.sudo = true
     end
  end

This var (hosthname) is not interactive in Vagrant, you never will be asked.

What is the trick? I tried this workaround and i liked it:

• Just in case i would create a default value for the variable.
• Force the value of the variable in the Vagrantfile

So, the final config files would be:

• Playbook:

- name: Installing test box
  hosts: all   
  connection: paramiko
  vars_prompt:
     - name: "hosthname"
       hosthname: "Give me a hostname:"
       private: no

       default: "test01-default"
  gather_facts: true
  roles:
   - base
   - redisenabled
   - nodebase

• Vagrantfile

  config.vm.define "test" do |test|
     test.vm.box = "chef/centos-6.6"
     test.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.1.1.13"
     test.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
       ansible.playbook = "ansible/playbooks/test.yml"
       ansible.sudo = true
       ansible.extra_vars = {
          hosthname: "test01"
       }
     end
  end

Boost C++ library RPM packages for CentOS 6

I have created some RPM packages from Boost C++ libraries, 1.54.0-8.20.2, 1.55.0,  1.56.0 1.57.0 1.58.0 and 1.59.0 for CentOS x64 (no 32bits sorry).

Building the Boost C++ Libraries with:

Performing configuration checks

    - 32-bit                   : no
    - 64-bit                   : yes
    - arm                      : no
    - mips1                    : no
    - power                    : no
    - sparc                    : no
    - x86                      : yes
    - lockfree boost::atomic_flag : yes
    - has_icu builds           : yes
warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components.
note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user-config.jam
    - zlib                     : yes
    - iconv (libc)             : yes
    - icu                      : yes
    - compiler-supports-ssse3  : yes
    - compiler-supports-avx2   : no
    - gcc visibility           : yes
    - long double support      : yes
    - zlib                     : yes

Component configuration:

    - atomic                   : building
    - chrono                   : building
    - container                : building
    - context                  : building
    - coroutine                : building
    - date_time                : building
    - exception                : building
    - filesystem               : building
    - graph                    : building
    - graph_parallel           : building
    - iostreams                : building
    - locale                   : building
    - log                      : building
    - math                     : building
    - mpi                      : not building
    - program_options          : building
    - python                   : building
    - random                   : building
    - regex                    : building
    - serialization            : building
    - signals                  : building
    - system                   : building
    - test                     : building
    - thread                   : building
    - timer                    : building
    - wave                     : building

• Here: https://bintray.com/vicendominguez/CentOS6/boost-devel
• Or here: https://bintray.com/vicendominguez/CentOS6/

Easy to add:

sudo wget https://bintray.com/vicendominguez/CentOS6/rpm -O /etc/yum.repos.d/bintray-vicendominguez-CentOS6.repo
sudo yum install boost-devel

:)