Task 1: Install services

Table of Contents

Setup the ACI Simulator

Go to the session overview and click on the “acisim” and “VM Console”

A new browser window will open and please follow the setup wizard as shown in the following screenshot: 

Go back to the Windows RDP session and open the Chrome browser. The page should already be loaded and displays a timeout. Refresh the page. You should see the APIC login screen  

🥳 Congratulation the first step is done! 🥳

Configure the Ubuntu machine

During this task we will install the following services:

  • Ansible with the aci collections
  • Docker
  • GitLab server
  • GitLab runner
Install some basic packages
				
					sudo apt install -y python3-pip ca-certificates curl openssh-server tzdata git net-tools
Install Ansible and the ACI collection
				
					sudo python3 -m pip install ansible paramiko lxml xmljson
sudo ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.aci
				
			
				
					cisco@ubuntu:~$ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.13.2]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/home/cisco/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/cisco/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/cisco/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /home/cisco/.local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.10 (default, Jun 22 2022, 20:18:18) [GCC 9.4.0]
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True
Install Docker
				
					sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
echo \
 "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
 $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin
				
			
				
					cisco@ubuntu:~$ docker --version
Docker version 20.10.17, build 100c701
Install GitLab server and GitLab runner
				
					curl -sS https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
curl -L "https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-runner/script.deb.sh" | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y gitlab-ce gitlab-runner
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/gitlab-runner/builds
sudo chown -R gitlab-runner:gitlab-runner  /var/lib/gitlab-runner
Ubuntu 22.04 (not relevant for the lab)
				
					sudo apt install curl debian-archive-keyring lsb-release ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common -y
gpg_key_url="https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/gpgkey"
curl -fsSL $gpg_key_url| sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/gitlab.gpg
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gitlab_gitlab-ce.list&lt;<eof deb https: focal main deb-src eof sudo apt update install gitlab-ce>
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Coffee break number 1!  ☕️

				
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Thank you for installing GitLab!
GitLab was unable to detect a valid hostname for your instance.
Please configure a URL for your GitLab instance by setting `external_url`
Fixing the Hostname & reconfigure
				
					sudo sed -i "s%http://gitlab.example.com%http://198.18.134.28%" /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

Coffee break number 2!  ☕️

				
					Running handlers:
[2022-08-09T15:05:47-04:00] INFO: Running report handlers
Running handlers complete
[2022-08-09T15:05:47-04:00] INFO: Report handlers complete
Infra Phase complete, 604/1615 resources updated in 04 minutes 55 seconds

Notes:
Default admin account has been configured with following details:
Username: root
Password: You didn't opt-in to print initial root password to STDOUT.
Password stored to /etc/gitlab/initial_root_password. This file will be cleaned up in first reconfigure run after 24 hours.

NOTE: Because these credentials might be present in your log files in plain text, it is highly recommended to reset the password following https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/security/reset_user_password.html#reset-your-root-password.
Getting the root password
				
					sudo cat /etc/gitlab/initial_root_password
				
			
				
					# WARNING: This value is valid only in the following conditions
#          1. If provided manually (either via `GITLAB_ROOT_PASSWORD` environment variable or via `gitlab_rails['initial_root_password']` setting in `gitlab.rb`, it was provided before database was seeded for the first time (usually, the first reconfigure run).
#          2. Password hasn't been changed manually, either via UI or via command line.
#
#          If the password shown here doesn't work, you must reset the admin password following https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/security/reset_user_password.html#reset-your-root-password.

Password: bNl/lzMXZg4HCjWq2P2QwDSxuFyed6hL9I91ma2qGIc=

Copy the password from your output and open the following link: http://198.18.134.28