This document is specific to the London RedCentric lab, but should evolve to a more generic setup once we have more labs. For now, there are some hard-coded logic in the wiki as well as the scripts, to make sure we can reproduce at least the one lab we have. Once we have more labs, we'll work to automate that using configuration files, command line options, etc.

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For the VMs to work on the two network interfaces of the host, we need to create a bridge in each and assign the required static IPs, as well as enabling IP forward and creating the SSH keys and setting up Ansible's host file.

This is all done by the network_setup.sh script in our labconf repository:

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For both MrProvisioner and Jenkins, the preseed will setup statis IPs (10.50.0.3 and 10.50.0.4 respectively), and they should be visible from the wider network, including the host. This is done to simplify VM migration and a potential new installation on a different server.

Update the Ansible host configuration:

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Installing the Jenkins service

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You may get two warnings when you log in to Jenkins, which can be corrected on the Global Security screen:

• Agent to master security subsystem is currently off: Check the box saying "Enable Agent → Master Access Control"
• Jenkins instance uses deprecated protocols: JNLP3-connect: Uncheck the box "Java Web Start Agent Protocol/3" in "Agent Protocols"
  

Save the configuration and you should be all set.

Installing the MrP service

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