Teaching WebTerm

Easy web terminal for students, when you have to teach system administration, and SSH is not available, not installable or not allowed.

Prerequisites

• For development
  • Vagrant - manage virtual machines
  • Minica - generate certificates
  • Ansible - provisionning
• For production
  • Terraform - manage provider infrastructure
  • Ansible - provisionning

Installation

Development / Test

vagrant up

Production

Adjust your environment variables in the .env file

TF_VAR_gandi_key="xxxxxxxx"
TF_VAR_ssh_private_key="$HOME/.ssh/path/to/key"
TF_VAR_ssh_public_key="$HOME/.ssh/path/to/key.pub"
TF_VAR_domain_name="example.com"
ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False
ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE="$HOME/path/to/passphrase"

And load it

source ../.env

Then create the infrastructure:

cd terraform/
terraform plan
terraform apply
cd ..

And install everything:

cd ansible
ansible-playbook -i inventories/terraform playbook.yml
cd ..

Usage

Open your web browser and type the gateway IP or domain.

For development

• URL: http://192.168.50.250
• Password: demo

For production:

• Please use the credentials defined in ansible/host_vars/*