Chapter 1. Ansible based deployment workflow

You can use Ansible to deploy Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization without needing to watch and tend to the deployment process.

Important

This deployment method is provided as a Technology Preview.

Technology Preview features are provided with a limited support scope, as detailed on the Customer Portal: Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

The workflow for deploying RHHI for Virtualization using Ansible is as follows.

Verify that your planned deployment meets the requirements: Support requirements
Install the physical machines that will act as virtualization hosts: Installing host physical machines
Configure key-based SSH authentication without a password to allow automatic host configuration: Configuring public key based SSH authentication without a password
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux based hosts, install Ansible packages and roles: Installing Ansible packages and roles
Edit the variable file with details of your environment: Setting deployment variables
Execute the Ansible playbook to deploy RHHI for Virtualization: Executing the deployment playbook
Verify your deployment.