Add example of ansible provisioning with playbook

Currently the playbook is relative to the current workdir,
it should probably be relative to the lima.yaml instead.

The YAML syntax and the directory layout has been modified
slightly from the original, to work with Lima's setup.

Signed-off-by: Anders F Björklund <anders.f.bjorklund@gmail.com>

Author: afbjorklund

templates/README.md

@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ Distro:
 - [`experimental/opensuse-tumbleweed`](./experimental/opensuse-tumbleweed.yaml): [experimental] openSUSE Tumbleweed
 - [`experimental/debian-sid`](./experimental/debian-sid.yaml): [experimental] Debian Sid
 
+Provisioning:
+- [`ansible`](./ansible.yaml): Ansible, using [playbook.yaml](./ansible/playbook.yaml)
+
 Container engines:
 - [`apptainer`](./apptainer.yaml): Apptainer
 - [`apptainer-rootful`](./apptainer-rootful.yaml): Apptainer (rootful)

templates/ansible.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+minimumLimaVersion: "1.0.0"
+images:
+# Try to use release-yyyyMMdd image if available. Note that release-yyyyMMdd will be removed after several months.
+- location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/noble/release-20250313/ubuntu-24.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img"
+  arch: "x86_64"
+  digest: "sha256:eacac65efe9e9bae0cbcb3f9d5c2b5e8c5313fa78a3bc401c3fb28b2d48cefc0"
+- location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/noble/release-20250313/ubuntu-24.04-server-cloudimg-arm64.img"
+  arch: "aarch64"
+  digest: "sha256:103f31c5a5b7f031a60ce3555c8fbd56317fd8ffbaaa7e17002879e6157d546d"
+# Fallback to the latest release image.
+# Hint: run `limactl prune` to invalidate the cache
+- location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/noble/release/ubuntu-24.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img"
+  arch: "x86_64"
+- location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/noble/release/ubuntu-24.04-server-cloudimg-arm64.img"
+  arch: "aarch64"
+mounts:
+- location: "~"
+- location: "/tmp/lima"
+  writable: true
+
+provision:
+- mode: ansible
+  playbook: ./templates/ansible/playbook.yaml
+message: |
+  To run `ansible` on the host (assumes ansible is installed), run the following commands:
+  ------
+  export ANSIBLE_INVENTORY="{{.Dir}}/ansible-inventory.yaml"
+  # To see the inventory: `ansible-inventory --list --yaml`
+
+  ansible all -m ping
+  ------

templates/ansible/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Ansible
+
+Playbook example from:
+
+<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/getting_started/get_started_playbook.html>
+
+Template example from:
+
+<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_templating.html>

templates/ansible/playbook.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+- name: My first play
+  hosts: all
+  tasks:
+  - name: Ping my hosts
+    ansible.builtin.ping:
+
+  - name: Print message
+    ansible.builtin.debug:
+      msg: Hello world
+  roles:
+  - hostname

templates/ansible/roles/hostname/tasks/main.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+- name: write hostname using jinja2
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+     src: templates/test.j2
+     dest: /tmp/hostname

templates/ansible/roles/hostname/templates/test.j2

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+My name is {{ ansible_facts['hostname'] }}