insankim/masteringansible

Repository for course content for Packt Mastering Ansible Course

Mastering Ansible Repo orginal author: James Spruin, https://github.com/spurin/masteringansible

Repository for course content for Packt Mastering Ansible Course URL: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/mastering-ansible/9781788629515/

Revised to use at team skill session @ IBM.

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Install Ansible

• Using CentOS 7 or RHEL 7

# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# yum install ansible

• Other OS Other OS

Download playbooks

# yum install git
# git clone https://github.com/insankim/masteringansible.git

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Playbooks to be used at session

0. Make sure the controller node can ssh to target nodes using a ssh key

# ssh-keygen //  when there is no previous key
# ssh-copy-id <host>

1. 01-05-03 Validating Ansible Installation

ansible all -m ping
ansible all -i -m ping
ansible centos -m ping
ansible ubuntu -m ping

2. 02-01-11 Ansible Inventories

# ansible all -m ping -o
# ansible linux -m ping -e 'ansible_port=22'

3. 02-05-17 Ansible Playbooks, Variables

# ansible-playbook variables_playbook.yml
# ansible-playbook variables_playbook.yml -e '{"extra_vars_key": "extra vars value in json"}'
# ansible-playbook variables_playbook.yml -e '{extra_vars_key: extra vars value in yaml}'
# ansible-playbook variables_playbook.yml -e @extra_vars_file.yml
# ansible-playbook variables_playbook.yml -e @extra_vars_file.json

# ansible

4. 02-06-06 Ansible Playbooks, Facts

# anible-playbook facts_playbook.yml

5. 02-08-10 Ansible Playbooks, Creating and Executing

# ansible-playbook nginx_playbook.yml

6. 03-03 Register and when

# ansible-playbook register_when_playbook.yml

7. 04-03-06 Structuring Ansible Playbooks, Using Roles

# ansible-playbook nginx_awsomeweb_plybook.yml