Ansible User Configuration

• In this series, lets create a user called as admin.
• If your vm is in AWS or any other virtualization provider with only key based authentication, we need to enable password based authentication.

File Location: /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Content: Password Authentication no => yes
service sshd restart

• Create a user devops

adduser devops

• This user devops needs to have sudo permissions and it is for automation

visudo

and add the following line
devops  ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

• Repeat the above steps for node1
• Now login into the acs and create a key pair

ssh-keygen

• To copy the generated public key to node the following command is used. (If machines belong to same network prefer private ip addresses)

ssh-copy-id devops@<nodeipaddress>

• If the copy is succesful, then you can login from acs to node1 directly by ipaddress or hostname

ssh <nodeipdaddress>

• Ensure you are in acs and create a file called as inventory with node’s ip address

touch inventory
echo '172.31.25.93' >> inventory

• Now lets test whether ansible can connect to node

ansible -i <path to inventory> -m ping all

# This should be success

• Now lets add one more entry to inventory and test using ansible ping

echo 'localhost' >> inventory
ansible -i inventory -m ping all

# ping will be successful for node and failed for localhost

• It has failed for localhost, because the user ‘devops’ is not configured to login. to fix this lets do the following

ssh-copy-id devops@localhost

ansible -i inventory -m ping all
# success for node and localhost

• Exercise: Create a centos machine and configure it to acs.