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Ansible Playbook Essentials

You're reading from   Ansible Playbook Essentials Design automation blueprints to manage your multitier infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398293
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gourav Shah Gourav Shah
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface Setting Up the Learning Environment 1. Blueprinting Your Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 2. Going Modular with Ansible Roles 3. Separating Code and Data – Variables, Facts, and Templates 4. Bringing In Your Code – Custom Commands and Scripts 5. Controlling Execution Flow – Conditionals 6. Iterative Control Structures – Loops 7. Node Discovery and Clustering 8. Encrypting Data with Vault 9. Managing Environments 10. Orchestrating Infrastructure with Ansible A. References
Index

Our first playbook

Equipped with the basic rules explained previously and assuming readers have done a quick dive into YAML fundamentals, we will now begin writing our first playbook. Our problem statement includes the following:

  1. Create a devops user on all hosts. This user should be part of the devops group.
  2. Install the "htop" utility. Htop is an improved version of top—an interactive system process monitor.
  3. Add the Nginx repository to the web servers and start it as a service.

Now, we will create our first playbook and save it as simple_playbook.yml containing the following code:

---
- hosts: all
  remote_user: vagrant
  sudo: yes
  tasks:
  
  - group:
      name: devops
      state: present
  - name: create devops user with admin privileges
    
    user:
      name: devops
      comment: "Devops User"
      uid: 2001
      group: devops
  - name: install htop package
    action: apt name=htop state=present update_cache=yes

- hosts: www
  user: vagrant
  sudo...
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