ansible-plays: A repository from BondAnthony

Helpful Ansible Plays

I find my self from time to time repeating plays throughout different projects. I also sometimes forget, how did I solve this issue before. Ansible roles allow for you to build custom actions that can be imported into playbooks multiple times. While this process is extremely helpful, roles can be a little more than what one person needs. The other issue of course is you need access to Github, Galaxy or any SVN storing those roles.

This project is more of a catalog or learning repository for Ansible plays. Simple and to the point, providing new users of Ansible with some real world examples of how Ansible has made my automation life a lot easier!

Getting Started

Ansible can be installed on a system using a number of different package managers or even running from source. I'll outline a couple options below.

Install Ansible on Red Hat system using yum or dnf
```
$ yum install ansible
```
```
$ dnf install ansible
```
Install Ansible using Python's pip package manager
```
$ pip install ansible
```
Of course if you don't have pip installed you need that installed first
```
$ easy_install pip
```
Install Ansible on a Ubuntu system.
```
$ apt-get install ansible
```
My favorite way of installing Ansible is directly from source. Now this option is a little more involved and requires more knownledge on the python development side but, you do have the ability to run the latest and great features and bugs. Word of advice if you do run from source please make sure you checkout a release tag when your hitting production systems.

a. Clone the project directly from Github.
```
$ git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git --recursive
$ cd ansible
```
b. Source the hacking/env-setup script. Add the -q flag to run in quiet mode, reducing output to the screen.
```
$ source ./hacking/env-setup
```

BondAnthony/ansible-plays

Helpful Ansible Plays

Getting Started