I want a fancy riced Linux desktop

brew cask install vagrant

Vagrant doesn't like Virtualbox 6.1, so install the last 6.0 version

brew cask install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/7e703e0466a463fe26ab4e253e28baa9c20d5f36/Casks/virtualbox.rb

Don't install Ansible for the whole system. Instead use a virtual environment so different projects can use different version of Ansible

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt  # ansible the is the only direct dep

All commands should be run from the repo root

• Activate virtualenv

source env/bin/activate

• Turn on VMs - see vagrant --help for other useful commands

vagrant up

• Create ssh config for Ansible to use

vagrant ssh-config > ssh_config

• Ping your new VMs with Ansible:

ansible all -m ping

• Run the test playbook:

ansible-playbook main.yml