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+#
+# setup a transient instance in the Fedora infrastructure private cloud
+#
+# This playbook is used to spin up a transient instance for someone to test something.
+# In particular transient instances will all be terminated at least by the next
+# maint window for the cloud, but ideally people will terminate instances they
+# are done using.
+#
+# If you have an application or longer term item that should always be around
+# please use the persistent playbook instead.
+#
+# You MUST pass a name to it, ie: -e 'name=somethingdescriptive'
+# You can optionally override defaults by passing any of the following:
+# image=imagename (default is centos70_x86_64)
+# instance_type=some instance type (default is m1.small)
+# root_auth_users='user1 user2 user3' (default is sysadmin-main group)
+#
+# Note: if you run this playbook with the same name= multiple times
+# openstack is smart enough to just return the current ip of that instance
+# and go on. This way you can re-run if you want to reconfigure it without
+# reprovisioning it.
+#
+# Example command:
+# transient_cloud_instance.yml --extra-vars="name='foo'  image='Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64'"
+#
+
+- name: check/create instance
+  hosts: batcave01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
+  user: root
+  gather_facts: False
+
+  vars_files:
+   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
+   - /srv/private/ansible/vars.yml
+   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/fedora-cloud.yml
+   - /srv/private/ansible/files/openstack/passwords.yml
+  vars:
+    image: "{{ centos70_x86_64 }}"
+    instance_type: m1.small
+
+  tasks:
+  - name: fail when name is not provided
+    fail: msg="Please specify the name of the instance"
+    when: name is not defined
+
+  - import_tasks: "{{ tasks_path }}/transient_newcloud.yml"
+
+  - name: gather facts
+    setup:
+    check_mode: no
+    ignore_errors: True
+    register: facts
+
+  - name: install python2 and dnf stuff
+    raw: dnf -y install python-dnf libselinux-python
+    when: facts is failed
+
+- name: provision instance
+  hosts: tmp_just_created
+  gather_facts: True
+  environment:
+    ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING: False
+
+  vars_files:
+   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
+   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
+   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
+
+  tasks:
+  - name: install cloud-utils (yum)
+    package: name=cloud-utils state=present
+    when: ansible_distribution_major_version|int < 22
+
+  - name: install cloud-utils (dnf)
+    command: dnf install -y cloud-utils
+    when: ansible_distribution_major_version|int > 21 and ansible_cmdline.ostree is not defined
+
+  - import_tasks: "{{ tasks_path }}/cloud_setup_basic.yml"
+
+  handlers:
+  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
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+- name: spin UP VM using os_server
+  delegate_to: undercloud01.cloud.fedoraproject.org
+  os_server:
+    state: present
+    security_groups: default
+    nics:
+    - net-id: d18c60b1-bba2-416f-87c3-a4416191bd7c
+    name: "{{ name }}"
+    auth:
+      auth_url: http://172.23.1.52:5000/v2.0
+      username: "admin"
+      password: "{{newcloud_os_admin_pw}}"
+      login_tenant_name: relrod-super-cool-test-project
+    image: fedora-28-cloud-test
+    flavor: test.flavor.blah
+    key_name: fedora-admin-20130801
+    auto_floating_ip: true
+    userdata: "#cloud-config\ndisable_root: 0"
+  register: nova_result
+
+- name: add it to the special group
+  local_action: add_host hostname="{{ nova_result.public_ip }}" groupname=tmp_just_created
+
+#- name: mail off about where it is
+#  local_action: mail
+#    to=sysadmin-main-members@fedoraproject.org
+#    from=ansible-create@fedoraproject.org
+#    subject="{{ nova_result.public_ip }}"
+#    body="transient cloud instance created on {{ nova_result.public_ip }}
+#          name = {{ name }}
+#          root_auth_users = {{ root_auth_users }}
+#          image = {{ image }}"
+
+- name: wait for he host to be hot
+  local_action: wait_for host={{ nova_result.public_ip }} port=22 delay=1 timeout=600
+
+#- name: gather ssh host key from new instance
+#  local_action: command ssh-keyscan -t rsa {{ nova_result.public_ip }}
+#  ignore_errors: True
+#  register: hostkey
+
+#- name: add new ssh host key (you still need to add it to official ssh_host_keys later)
+#  local_action: known_hosts path={{item}} key="{{ hostkey.stdout }}" host={{ nova_result.public_ip }} state=present
+#  ignore_errors: True
+#  with_items:
+#  - /root/.ssh/known_hosts
+#  - /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
+
+# SSH is up and running, however cloud-init still did not deployed ssh keypair
+# we have to wait some time. 10 sec is usually enough, but not always.
+- name: waiting for cloud-init
+  pause: seconds=30