Running vagrant ansible provisioner on Windows/Cygwin

Tools Required

1. Vagrant 2.x
2. Cygwin

install necessary packages like python, python2-paramiko,python-crypto,python-setuptools,wget,openssh,gcc-g++ from cygwin installer.

open the cygwin terminal

$ /home/<username>
$ vi .bashrc
export PYTHONHOME=/usr
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.7

now lets install ansible from the cygwin terminal ( setup proxy if you are behind the proxy ), before that install pip

$ python /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy_install.py pip
$ pip install ansible

NOTE: if the above ansible installation fails, make sure to install the necessary packages as told above

lets create a ansible provisioner in vagrant
create a proper workspace ( folder )

create the box

 $ vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64

init the box

$ vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64

liftoff the vagrant :)

$ vagrant up

this will generate the necessary files and folder
a. Vagrantfile
b. .vagrant/
c. playbook.yml ( should be create to provision this on vagrant guest )

Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
    ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
    if File.file?     (".vagrant/provisioners/ansible/inventory/vagrant_ansible_inventory")
      ansible.inventory_path =     ".vagrant/provisioners/ansible/inventory/vagrant_ansible_inventory"
    end
  end
end

playbook.yml

---
- hosts: all
  become: true
  tasks:
    - name: Install NTP
      apt: package=ntp,ntpdate state=present update_cache=yes
      tags: ntp
 
    - name: Make sure NTP is started up
      service: name=ntp state=started enabled=yes
      tags: ntp
    - name: install JDK 11
      apt:
        name: openjdk-7-jdk
        state: present
    - name: install apache2
      apt: name=apache2 update_cache=yes state=latest
 
    - name: enabled mod_rewrite
      apache2_module: name=rewrite state=present
      notify:
        - restart apache2
 
  handlers:
    - name: restart apache2
      service: name=apache2 state=restarted

now provision your playbook on the vagrant guest

$ vagrant provision

Now login to the vagrant and check if the provisions happened or not

$ vagrant ssh

Check for the status of NTP, java, apache2

# service status apache
# java -version

lets provision using “ansible_local”.
Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant"
  config.vm.provision "ansible_local" do |ansible|
    ansible.become = true
    ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
    ansible.verbose = true
    ansible.install = true
    ansible.local = true
    vagrant_synced_folder_default_type=""
  end
end

playbook.yml

---
- hosts: all
  user: vagrant
  become: yes
  vars:
    ansible_port: '2222'
    ansible_ssh_user: 'vagrant'
  tasks:
    - name: Make sure NTP is started up
      become: yes
      service: name=ntp state=started enabled=yes
      tags: ntp
    - name: install JDK 11
      become: yes
      apt:
        name: openjdk-7-jdk
        state: present
    - name: install apache2
      become: yes
      apt:
        name: apache2
        state: latest
    - name: enabled mod_rewrite
      become: yes
      apache2_module: name=rewrite state=present
      notify:
        - restart apache2
  handlers:
    - name: restart apache2
      service: name=apache2 state=restarted

ansible.cfg

[defaults]
host_key_checking = no
[ssh_connection]
control_path_dir = "/tmp/ansible-ssh-%%h-%%p-%%r
ssh_args = -o ControlMaster=no -o PasswordAuthentication=no

spinp up the vagrant

$ vagrant up --provision

expected result

$ vagrant provision                                                                                                                              
==> default: Running provisioner: ansible_local...                                                                                               
    default: Running ansible-playbook...                                                                                                         
cd /vagrant && PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 ANSIBLE_NOCOLOR=true ansible-playbook --limit="default" --inventory-file=/tmp/vagrant-ansible/inventory --becom
e -v playbook.yml                                                                                                                                
 [WARNING] Ansible is being run in a world writable directory (/vagrant), ignoring it as an ansible.cfg source. For more information see https://
docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/config.html#cfg-in-world-writable-dir                                                        
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                 
PLAY [all] *********************************************************************                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                 
TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************                                                                 
ok: [default]                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                 
TASK [Make sure NTP is started up] *********************************************                                                                 
ok: [default] => {"changed": false, "enabled": true, "name": "ntp", "state": "started"}                                                          
                                                                                                                                                 
TASK [install JDK 11] **********************************************************                                                                 
ok: [default] => {"cache_update_time": 1592218185, "cache_updated": false, "changed": false}                                                     
                                                                                                                                                 
TASK [install apache2] *********************************************************                                                                 
ok: [default] => {"cache_update_time": 1592218185, "cache_updated": false, "changed": false}                                                     
                                                                                                                                                 
TASK [enabled mod_rewrite] *****************************************************                                                                 
ok: [default] => {"changed": false, "result": "Module rewrite enabled"}                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                 
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************                                                                 
default                    : ok=5    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

that’s all folks , take it easy !