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Ansible playbooks to setup build environment for bitmask-vpn on macOS and Windows
This contains two very simple ansible playbooks to create windows and macOS build hosts, We used ansible to make it scalable to more then one host at a time and for easy extensibility later.
The windows
and macos
subdirectories contain the playbooks and documentation around how to use them. The following sections provide instructions for installing Ansible on the control node and testing these playbooks during development.
Installing Ansible
We need to install Ansible on the node from where we'll be running the playbooks, we'll need the cli tools ansible
, ansible-playbook
to use these playbooks.
NOTE: Control node needs to be a linux or macOS host, we haven't tested from an Windows control node.
You can follow the official documentation for Installing Ansible
Or if you already have python
installed (which is the case for most linux distros and macOS):
$ python3 -m pip install --user ansible
# Additionally `ansible-lint` is another useful package to install
Developing
While making changes to these playbooks its very useful to test and verify new changes locally, for this we suggest to use quickemu
to quickly spin up macOS and Windows test VMs.
Installing quickemu
At the time of writing this, quickemu
only supports running on Linux distros. There's on-going work to support macOS but not available yet. Please look at their README for specific installation instructions for your OS.
Testing workflow with quickemu
Creating a Windows 10 VM
First we need to obtain the Windows 10 installation ISO, run the following commands to download the ISO:
$ mkdir win10 # we are creating this directory which will contain all the files needed by this VM
$ cd win10
$ quickget windows 10
After running the above commands, the contents of the win10
directory should be similar to following:
$ ls win10
windows-10 windows-10.conf
More details about the conf
file's and the directorie's contents can be found in their README.
Then start the VM and follow the usual windows setup process:
# ensure your inside the win10/ dir
$ quickemu --vm windows-10.conf
Creating a macOS 10.15 VM
Similar to the Windows 10 VM above we first need to obtain the installation image, the following sequence of commands creates a macOS 10.15 VM:
$ mkdir macos-10.15 # dir to contain all the VM related files
$ cd macos-10.15
$ quickget macos catalina # download the catalina (10.15) macos image
# once the image is downloaded the contents of macos-10.15/ dir should look similar to following
$ ls macos-10.15
macos-catalina macos-catalina.conf
To start the VM run the following command:
$ cd macos-10.15
$ quickemu --vm macos-catalina.conf
This will start the vm and launch macOS installation wizard, follow the instructions from macOS Guest section of the quickemu
README to finish the installation.
After creating the VM with the desired OS, follow the README
for the specific windows or macOS playbook.