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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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Fabio Alessandro Locati Fabio Alessandro Locati
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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

Transforming the webserver role

As we transformed the common playbook into the common role, we can do the same for the webserver role.

In roles, we need to have the webserver folder with the tasks subfolder inside it. In this folder, we have to put the main.yaml file containing the tasks copied from the playbooks. The following is the code snippet; the full code is available on GitHub:

--- 
- name: Ensure the HTTPd package is installed 
  yum: 
    name: httpd 
    state: present 
  become: True 
- name: Ensure the HTTPd service is enabled and running 
  service: 
    name: httpd 
    state: started 
    enabled: True 
  become: True 
- name: Ensure HTTP can pass the firewall 
  firewalld: 
    service: http 
    state: enabled 
    permanent: True 
    immediate: True 
  become: True 
...

In this role, we have used multiple tasks that will need additional resources to work properly...

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