Ansible Tutorials

Sample programs and examples for DevOps Training

Ansible

Contains examples of Ansible playbooks

Get setup for your Local Git with Visual studio code

Ansible Instructions

Please use the instructions to setup environment at:

lab-01

Just copy paste the instructions from lab-01 folder, it should work

lab-02

cd ansible/lab-02/
ansible-playbook java-nginx.yml

lab-03

cd ansible/lab-03/
ansible-playbook web-page.yml

lab-04

cd ansible/lab-04/
ansible-playbook deploy-web-content.yml

lab-05

cd ansible/lab-05/
ansible-playbook deploy-web-content.yml

lab-06 - Please don't push your AWS key on github

Lab to create instances on AWS.

sudo yum install python-pip -y
sudo pip install boto
cd ansible/lab-06/
ansible-playbook create_ec2_instance.yml

To Terminate the instance ( You will need the instance id either from AWS console, or output from the create playbook)

cd ansible/lab-06/
ansible-playbook terminate_ec2_instance.yml

Lab -07 - Please don't push your AWS key on github

Generate dynamic inventory and run playbooks

cd ansible/lab-07/
python dynamic_inventory.py <aws-access-key> <aws-access-secret-key>

Lab -08 - Please don't push your AWS key on github

Generate dynamic inventory and install docker followed by mssql docker image

ansible-playbook lab-08/running_roles.yml

Q&A

Assignments

• Write a ansible ad-hoc to retrieve the current date and time from web servers.
• Create a group by name “db” and add remote node to the group.Verify connectivity with the group.
• Write a ansible ad-hoc command to install & remove python3 & git package.
• Add a system user called joe on all web servers. Make sure that the user has a home directory.
• Write a ansible ad-hoc to clone the github repository. (https://github.com/becloudready/ansible-tutorials) & store it in location /tmp/.
• Write a ad-hoc command to fetch the file .bash_profile from remote node & store it on controller node in home directory by name remote_node_profile.
• Create a custom fact in remote nodes & get the git & httpd version using ansible adhoc command.
• Write a playbook to read username & password as variables & display the output.
• Write a playbook to install httpd using command line argument.
• Write a playbook to get the following details of localhost using setup module
  • ansible_distribution
  • ansible_distribution_version
  • ansible_os_family
• Write a playbook to perform the following arithmetic operations by passing values of x & y through vars.yaml file.
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division v)Modulus
• Write a playbook to install httpd using conditional statement.
• Write a playbook to create the following users using loops.
  • user:kunal groups:wheel
  • user:tom groups:user
  • user:bob groups:user
• Write a playbook to install nginx & wget with & without tags.
• Write a playbook to install apache web-server with customized default page which will prints "Welcome to Ansible training with ip_address of remote node".
• Write a playbook to install Tomcat server
• Write a playbook to install Tomcat server using roles
• Write a playbook to install Jenkins server using roles