Ansible 101

Preparing your environment

./setup.sh

Contents

• inventories: Directory containing some inventory examples
  • inventory.yaml: Simple inventory example
  • libvirt-inventory.yaml: Inventory plugin example (libvirt)
• roles: Some example roles
  • webserver: Install a nginx web server
  • wintest: Run commands on windows host
• check.yaml: A playbook to check host connectivity
• servers.yaml: A playbook to setup servers in a site
• wintest.yaml: A playbook

Examples

Check that all hosts are accesible (check.yaml)

ansible-playbook -i inventories/inventory.yaml check.yaml

Setup a web server (servers.yaml)

ansible-playbook -i inventories/inventory.yaml servers.yaml -K

Running commands on windows (wintest.yaml)

ansible-playbook -i inventories/inventory.yaml wintest.yaml -K

Running a playbook using an inventory plugin

ansible-playbook -i inventories/libvirt-inventory.yaml check.yaml