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Learning Ansible 2.7

You're reading from   Learning Ansible 2.7 Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954333
Length 266 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Automating Simple Tasks 4. Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment
5. Scaling to Multiple Hosts 6. Handling Complex Deployment 7. Going Cloud 8. Getting Notification from Ansible 9. Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible
10. Creating a Custom Module 11. Debugging and Error Handling 12. Complex Environments 13. Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible
14. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises 15. Getting Started with AWX 16. Working with AWX Users, Permissions, and Organizations 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Handlers in roles

The last thing we need to do to complete this role is to create the handler for the Restart HTTPd notification. To do so, we will need to create a main.yaml file in roles/webserver/handlers with the following content:

--- 
- name: Restart HTTPd 
  service: 
    name: httpd 
    state: restarted 
  become: True 

As you may have noticed, this is very similar to the handler we used in the playbook, if not for the file location and indentation.

The only thing that we still need to do to make our role applicable is to add the entry to the playbooks/groups/webserver.yaml file so that Ansible is informed that the servers in the web server group should apply the web server role as well as the common role. Our playbooks/groups/webserver.yaml file will need to be like the following:

--- 
- hosts: webserver 
  user: ansible 
  roles: 
  - common 
  - webserver 

We could...

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