Hands-on Activity 4: Ansible Playbooks

This activity demonstrates the creation of a simple ansible playbook filled with various Ansible modules.

Objectives

• Create Ansible Playbook to document the workflow.

Tasks

1. Fork this repository https://github.com/ajcanlas-tip/sysad2-12021.git
2. Clone your newly forked repository.
3. Make a new branch named “activity4” from master branch using git branch activity4 and git checkout activity4
   • Note: To Prevent Conflicts Create a directory with your username as its name and go inside of it, and create a directory called “activity4” and go inside it.
4. Make a new new remote upstream with git remote add upstream https://github.com/ajcanlas-tip/sysad2-12021.git
5. Create a playbook that install java via package manager , and install boto,ansible,and openstack py packages using pip in both Ubuntu and Centos.
6. add,commit and push it to your activity4 branch
7. Request a pull request for the master branch in https://github.com/ajcanlas-tip/sysad2-12021.git and activity4 branch of your forked repository.

Output

jpcabral-tip/activity4/ansible.cfg

[defaults]

# Basic Configuration
inventory = ./inventory
remote_user = jpcabral-tip
private_key_file = ./private.key

# Priviege Escalation
[privilege_escalation]
become = True
become_method = sudo
become_user = root
become_ask_pass = False

jpcabral-tip/activity4/inventory

[ubuntu]
192.168.254.115

[centos]
192.168.254.116

jpcabral-tip/activity4/playbook.yaml

---
  - name: Install Packages for Ubuntu
    hosts: ubuntu
    
    tasks:
    - name: Install Java
      apt:
        name: default-jre
        state: present
        update_cache: yes
  

  - name: Install Packages for Centos
    hosts: centos

    tasks:
    - name: Install Java
      yum:
        name: java-1.8.0-openjdk
        state: present
        update_cache: yes


  - name: Pip Install for All
    hosts: all

    tasks:
    - name: Install via ansible, boto, and openstack via pip
      pip:
        name:
          - ansible
          - boto
          - python-openstackclient

Execute using the following command to run the playbook:

localhost:~/jpcabral-tip/activity4# ansible-playbook playbook.yaml

As seen on Github.