Prelim Hands-on Activity

Hands-on Activity 5: Implement Ansible roles in playbooks

by Jose Paulo Cabral

The activity showcases the use of ansible roles to optimize an Ansible playbook.

Objectives

  • Create an Ansible Playbook that uses Ansible roles as optimization.

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 “activity5” from master branch using git branch activity5 and git checkout activity5
    • Note: To Prevent Conflicts Create a directory with your username as its name and go inside of it, and create a directory called “activity5” 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. Optimize the playbook in Hands-on Activity 4: Ansible Playbooks
  6. add,commit and push it to your activity5 branch
  7. Request a pull request for the master branch in https://github.com/ajcanlas-tip/sysad2-12021.git and activity5 branch of your forked repository.

Output

jpcabral-tip/activity5/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/activity5/inventory

[ubuntu]
192.168.254.115

[centos]
192.168.254.116


jpcabral-tip/activity5/playbook.yaml

---
  - name: Install Packages for Ubuntu
    hosts: ubuntu
    
    tasks:
    - name: Install Java via installpackages-ubuntu role
      include_role:
        name: installpackages-ubuntu
      vars:
        package: "default-jre"
  

  - name: Install Packages for Centos
    hosts: centos

    tasks:
    - name: Install Java via installpackages-centos role
      include_role:
        name: installpackages-centos
      vars:
        package: "java-1.8.0-openjdk"
       

  - name: Pip Install for All
    hosts: all

    tasks:
    - name: Install ansible, boto, and openstack via pipinstall role
      include_role:
        name: pipinstall
      vars:
        pippackages:
          - ansible
          - boto
          - python-openstackclient


jpcabral-tip/activity5/roles/installpackages-centos/tasks/main.yml

---
# tasks file for roles/installpackages-centos
- name: Install Package
  yum:
    name: ""
    state: present
    update_cache: yes


jpcabral-tip/activity5/roles/installpackages-ubuntu/tasks/main.yml

---
# tasks file for roles/installpackages-ubuntu
- name: Install Package
  apt:
    name: ""
    state: present
    update_cache: yes


jpcabral-tip/activity5/roles/pipinstall/tasks/main.yml

---
# tasks file for roles/pipinstall
- name: Pip Install Packages
  pip:
    name: ""


Execute using the following command to run the playbook:

localhost:~/jpcabral-tip/activity5# ansible-playbook playbook.yaml


As seen on Github.