Playbooks for multiple linux distributions

• Write the same playbook for multiple linux distributions
• Write different playbooks for different linux distros

Different Playbooks for installing git,tree, nano, elinks

• Ubuntu

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Install git
      apt:
        name: git
        update_cache: yes
        state: present
    - name: Install tree
      apt:
        name: tree
        state: present
    - name: Install nano
      apt:
        name: nano
        state: present
    - name: Install elinks
      apt:
        name: elinks
        state: present
        

• Centos: yum module

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: install git
      yum:
        name: git
        state: present
    - name: install tree
      yum:
        name: tree
        state: present
    - name: install nano
      yum:
        name: nano
        state: present
    - name: install elinks
      yum:
        name: elinks
        state: present

• Now create a different inventory file for each distribution
• Execute ansible-playbook commands separtely for each distribution

ansible-playbook -i hosts_ubuntu ex1-ubuntu.yaml
ansible-playbook -i hosts_centos ex1-centos.yaml

Lets make this better by writing one playbook and one inventory file

• Use the generic package module package

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: install git
      package: 
        name: git
        state: present
    - name: install tree
      package:
        name: tree
        state: present
    - name: install nano
      package:
        name: nano
        state: present
    - name: install elinks
      package:
        name: elinks
        state: present

Exercise – 2: Install apache on centos and ubuntu machines using ansible playbook

• manual:

# ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
sudo systemctl enable apache2
sudo systemctl start apache2

# centos
sudo yum install httpd -y
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd

• To solve this problem, we have to understand ansible facts
• Ansible facts gather information from the node where ansible is executed. These facts contain lot of information some of popular ones are
  • Operating SYtem
  • Free Memory
  • ethernet interfaces
  • free disk space
• To collect facts ansible uses a module called as setup
• Lets also learn how to execute ansible adhoc commands looking at parameters in module documentation page
• We will be using service module and conditionals
• Now lets look at playbook

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Install apache2
      apt:
        name: apache2
        update_cache: yes
        state: present
      when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
    - name: Install httpd
      yum:
        name: httpd
        state: present
      when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat"
    - name: Enable apache2
      service:
        name: apache2
        enabled: yes
        state: started
      when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
    - name: Enable httpd
      service:
        name: httpd
        enabled: yes
        state: started
      when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat"