Since our website will be a simple, single page website, we can easily create it and publish it using a single Ansible task. To make this page a little bit more interesting, we will create it from a template that will be populated by Ansible with a little data about the machine. The script to publish it will be called deploy_website.yaml and will have the following content:
---
- hosts: all
remote_user: ansible
tasks:
- name: Ensure the website is present and updated
template:
src: index.html.j2
dest: /var/www/html/index.html
owner: root
group: root
mode: 0644
become: True
Let's start with a simple template that we will call index.html.j2:
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
</body>
</html>
Now we can test our website deployment by running the following:
$ ansible-playbook ...