It is possible to install AnsibleForms on a Windows 11 laptop. Here's how we do it.
Part 1) Running Ubuntu
1.1) For the purposes of this walkthrough, confirm your Windows version is 11 - 22H2 (or better):
The best/easiest way to do this is to look in: System > About
Note: The following from PowerShell seemed to indicate my system was Windows 10, but clearly from the above it is not.
[System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version
slmgr /ldv
1.2) Install Microsoft Windows Subsystem Linux:
If you're using the version above (or better) this install is super simple. From Windows PowerShell running as an Administrator:
wsl --install
At the time of writing there are many distributions that can be installed (see Appendix), I went for:
wsl --install -d Ubuntu-22.04
1.3) Open up Ubuntu:
Search for Ubuntu and run (you can add it to your taskbar).
Note: I am using Ubuntu 22.04.13 LTS.
Here we follow the steps from: AnsibleForms Docs - Installation
1) Choose a location to install:
sudo mkdir /srv/apps
cd /srv/apps
2) Clone the docker-compose project:
sudo apt-get install -y git
sudo git init
sudo git clone https://github.com/ansibleguy76/ansibleforms-docker.git
cd ansibleforms-docker
3) Set proper permissions:
sudo chmod -R 664 ./data
sudo chmod -R +x ./data/mysql/init/
4) Install Docker and docker-compose
Note: This bit is different to the documentation, I hit the following errors running the command:
sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-compose
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package docker-ce is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'docker-ce' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package docker-ce-cli
E: Unable to locate package containerd.io
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'containerd.io'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'containerd.io'
E: Unable to locate package docker-buildx-plugin
E: Unable to locate package docker-compose-plugin
- so I found this on the internet: How to Install Docker Compose on Ubuntu 20.04
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install docker-compose
The following additional packages will be installed: bridge-utils containerd dns-root-data dnsmasq-base docker.io pigz python3-attr python3-docker python3-dockerpty python3-docopt python3-dotenv python3-jsonschema python3-pyrsistent python3-texttable python3-websocket runc ubuntu-fan
Then we continue with the instructions from AnsibleForms Docs - Installation.
sudo mkdir -p /etc/docker
echo "{\"dns-opts\":[\"ndots:15\"]}" | sudo tee /etc/docker/daemon.json
{"dns-opts":["ndots:15"]}
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
An additional command to check if docker is running:
sudo systemctl show --property ActiveState docker
5) Customize
View (or customize) docker-compose.yml:
user@PC:/srv/apps/ansibleforms-docker$ cat docker-compose.yml
6) Start docker-compose project
sudo docker-compose up -d
7) Test the application
To check the IP address of your Windows Subsystem for Linux VM from Windows PowerShell:
wsl hostname -I
To get the IP of the Windows machine as seen from WSL 2:
cat /etc/resolv.conf
Connect to https://SERVERIP:8443 and use the default login: admin / AnsibleForms!123
APPENDIX A: Current Windows Subsystem for Linux Distros
The following is a list of valid distributions that can be installed.
Install using 'wsl --install -d DISTRO'.
NAME
Ubuntu
Debian
kali-linux
Ubuntu-18.04
Ubuntu-20.04
Ubuntu-22.04
OracleLinux_7_9
OracleLinux_8_7
OracleLinux_9_1
openSUSE-Leap-15.5
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-15-SP4
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP5
openSUSE-Tumbleweed
APPENDIX B: docker-compose.yml post install
user@PC:/srv/apps/ansibleforms-docker$ cat docker-compose.yml
version: '3.0'
services:
# MySql Server
mysqldb:
image: mysql:8.1
container_name: af_db
restart: unless-stopped
# load extra environment variables from file
env_file: ./.env
# Set manual environment variables
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=$MYSQLDB_PASSWORD
- MYSQL_DATABASE=AnsibleForms
ports:
# Mount host port to docker internal port
- $MYSQLDB_LOCAL_PORT:$MYSQLDB_DOCKER_PORT
volumes:
# Map database location (to maintain persistency)
- ./data/mysql/db:/var/lib/mysql
# Map my.cnf file (to maintain persistency)
- ./data/mysql/my.cnf:/etc/mysql/my.cnf
# Map init sql scripts
- ./data/mysql/init:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
# AnsibleForms application
app:
# Only start after MySql
depends_on:
- mysqldb
image: ansibleguy/ansibleforms:latest
container_name: af_app
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
# Mount host port to docker internal port
- $WEBAPP_LOCAL_PORT:$WEBAPP_DOCKER_PORT
# Load extra environment variables from file
env_file:
- ./.env
# Set environment variables
environment:
- DB_HOST=mysqldb
- DB_USER=$MYSQLDB_USER
- DB_PASSWORD=$MYSQLDB_PASSWORD
- DB_PORT=$MYSQLDB_DOCKER_PORT
- PORT=$WEBAPP_DOCKER_PORT
# adding python path to add our custom persistent lib location
- PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python311.zip:/usr/lib/python3.11:/usr/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload:/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages:/app/dist/persistent/python/lib
# allow interactive shell
stdin_open: true
# allow terminal
tty: true
volumes:
# Mount application folder to host folder (to maintain persistency)
- ./data:/app/dist/persistent
# Mount images folder to host folder (to have custom images)
- ./data/images:/app/dist/views/assets/images
# Mount logo (to have custom logo)
#- ./data/images/mylogo.svg:/app/dist/views/assets/img/logo_ansible_forms_full_white.svg
# Mount background image (to have custom background)
#- ./data/bg.jpg:/app/dist/views/assets/img/bg.jpg
# Map custom functions for js expressions and jq
- ./data/functions/custom.js:/app/dist/src/functions/custom.js
- ./data/functions/jq.custom.definitions.js:/app/dist/src/functions/jq.custom.definitions.js
# Map custom sshkey to local node .ssh location
- ./data/ssh:$HOME_DIR/.ssh
- ./data/git/.gitconfig:$HOME_DIR/.gitconfig
# Map custom ansible.cfg
- ./data/ansible/ansible.cfg:/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
- ./data/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles
- ./data/ansible/collections:/etc/ansible/collections
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