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Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

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Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With Ansible, even complex tasks can be handled easier than before. In this book, you will learn about the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible 2 by diving deeply into topics such as installation (Linux, BSD, and Windows Support), playbooks, modules, various testing strategies, provisioning, deployment, and orchestration. In this book, you will get accustomed with the new features of Ansible 2 such as cleaner architecture, task blocks, playbook parsing, new execution strategy plugins, and modules. You will also learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as AWS. The book ends with the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy, where you will learn to interact Ansible with different OSes to speed up your work to previously unseen levels By the end of the book, you’ll able to leverage the Ansible parameters to create expeditious tasks for your organization by implementing the Ansible 2 techniques and paradigms.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Ansible 2 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Preparing the environment


To see how we can deploy the code in the various ways we talked about in the previous pages, we will need an environment, and obviously we are going to create it using Ansible. First of all, to ensure that our roles are properly loaded, we need the ansible.cfg file with the following content:

[defaults] 
roles_path = roles 

Then we need the playbooks/firstrun.yaml to ensure that we can configure our machines with a basic configuration, with the following content:

- hosts: all 
  user: root 
  tasks: 
  - name: Ensure ansible user exists 
    user: 
      name: ansible 
      state: present 
      comment: Ansible 
  - name: Ensure ansible user accepts the SSH key 
    authorized_key: 
      user: ansible 
      key: https://github.com/fale.keys 
      state: present 
  - name: Ensure the ansible user is sudoer with no password required 
    lineinfile: 
      dest: /etc/sudoers &...