/cas-ansible-demo

Sample Content for Using Ansible with Cloud Automation Services

Contents

  • web.yml - Simple Playbook for deploying Nginx
  • blueprint.yaml - Blueprint with an Ansible Object

Overview

Ansible integration in Cloud Automation Services leverages an Ansible Control Machine to act as a central point for executing the playbooks. Both provisioning and de-provisioning playbooks are supported.

From an authentication to ansible hosts, we support a number of methods:

  • Generated Key
  • Public Key
  • Username and Password

Your Ansible Control Machine

Only Ansible 2.6+ is supported currently. Ensure you have upgraded your Ansible installation using pip --upgrade ansible. If you do not have pip installed, you'll need to install it...

  • Ubuntu: apt install python-pip -y

  • CentOS: yum install python-pip -y

  • Ubuntu: To install/upgrade using apt, run the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible -y

Once that is created, you will need to provide a user with sufficient credentials to connect to the Ansible control machine via the integration over SSH.

Playbooks

Ensure that you have copied your playbooks to a directory with appropriate access on the Ansible Control Machine (ACM). In the blueprint sample above we have created our integration using the root (not recommended) account, and our playbooks live in /root/playbooks.

A Note on Ansible Requirements

Ensure you have Python installed on the endpoint machines; Python is required for Ansible to function.