minishift_up

minishift-up

Installs the latest minishift binary, and creates a minishift instance.

Performs the following tasks:

Downloads and installs the latest minishift binary
Copies the latest oc binary from ~/.minishift/cache/oc to a directory in your PATH
Installs the Docker Machine driver
Creates a minishift instance
Grants cluster admin to the admin account

Accessing the registry

After the role executes, and minishift is running, you will be able to access the internal registry after setting the minishift docker-env eval command:

    eval $(minishift docker-env)
    docker login -u developer -p $(oc whoami -t)

Supported platforms

Debian
Red Hat
OSX

Prerequisites

Ansible 2.4+
Prior to running the role, clear your terminal session of any DOCKER* environment variables.
sudo access is required for installing packages
git (if using community addons)
gnu tar (brew install gnu-tar)

OSX

Mounting /Users to the Minishift VM

When the Minishift VM is started, the /Users volume will be mounted to the VM. This is done by setting the environment variable XHYVE_VIRTIO_9P=true.

Linux

KVM installed and working. The role installs the Docker Machine driver for KVM, but it assumes KVM is already installed, and working.
Ansible 2.4+

Fedora

Install packages python2-dnf, and libselinux-python

Known Issues

Fedora

Before accessing the Docker daemon on the Minishift instance, you'll need to modify the /etc/sysconfig/docker script to prevent it from overriding the DOCKER_CERT_PATH environment variable. Edit the file, and change the line DOCKER_CERT_PATH=/etc/docker to the following:
```
if [ -z "${DOCKER_CERT_PATH}" ]; then
    DOCKER_CERT_PATH=/etc/docker
fi
```

Defaults

minishift_repo: minishift/minishift

Repo where the minishift binary can be found

minishift_github_url: https://api.github.com/repos

URL to access GitHub API.

minishift_release_tag_name: ""

Defaults to installing the latest release. Use to install a specific minishift release.

minishift_dest: /usr/local/bin**

Where to install the minishift binary.

minishift_force_install: yes

Overwrite any existing minishift binary found at {{ minishift_dest }}

minishift_restart: yes

Stop and recreate the existing minishift instance.

minishift_delete: yes

Perform minishift delete, and remove ~/.minishift. If you're upgrading, you most likely want to do this.

minishift_start_options: []

Provide a list of options to pass to minishift start. For example: ['--memory', '4GB', '--cpus', '4']

openshift_client_dest: /usr/local/bin

Where to install the OpenShift client binary.

openshift_force_client_copy: yes

Overwrite any existing OpenShift client binary found at {{ openshift_client_dest }}.

minishift_experimental: no

Enable experimental features

minishift_service_catalog: no

Enable service catalog component

use_hyperkit: no

For MaxOSX you can "try to" use hyperkit instad of xhyve by setting this to yes

minishift_addons_enable no

To use addons set to yes

minishift_addons_community_enable: no

To use community addons set to yes and set path

minishift_addons_community_path: $HOME\Downloads\git

Set this to the community addons path you'll install to (must exist)

minishift_redhat_login: '123456|magicalyak' minishift_redhat_password: 'token_stuff_stuff_token'

Set this to the redhat container service account username and password

Example Playbook

Below is a sample playbook that includes all of the default parameters. You'll find an example of this in the root of the project tree.

---
- name: Install minishift
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: yes
  roles:
    - role: magicalyak.minishift_nginx
      minishift_repo: minishift/minishift
      minishift_github_url: https://api.github.com/repos
      minishift_release_tag_name: ""
      minishift_dest: /usr/local/bin  
      minishift_force_install: yes
      minishift_restart: yes
      minishift_delete: yes
      minishift_start_options: []
      openshift_client_dest: /usr/local/bin
      openshift_force_client_copy: yes
      minishift_experimental: no
      minishift_service_catalog: no
      use_hyperkit: yes
      minishift_addons_enable: no
      minishift_addons:
      minishift_addons:
        anyuid: no
        registry_route: no
        admissions_webhook: no
        htpasswd_identity_provider: no
        xpaas: no
        redhat_registry_logon: no
        che: no
        prometheus: no
        admin_user: yes
      minishift_addons_community_enable: no
      minishift_addons_community_path: $HOME/Downloads/git
      minishift_addons_community:
        ansible_service_broker: no
        dotnet: no
        example: no
        grafana: no
        helm: no
        istio: no
        management_infra: no
        workshop: no
        eap_cd: no

After you install the role, copy minishift-nginx.yml to your project directory, and execute it with the --ask-become-pass option. For example:

# Install the role
$ ansible-galaxy install magicalyak.minishift_up

# Copy the playbook from your roles path to the current working directory
$ cp ${ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH}/magicalyak.minishift_up/minishift-up.yml .

# Create a localhost inventory file
$ echo "localhost">./inventory

# Run the playbook
$ ansible-playbook -i inventory --ask-become-pass minishift-up.yml