How Ansible Works
- In ansible we specify our desired state (What we want) in YAML which is called as Playbook
What’s so great about Ansible
- Easy to Read Syntax
- Nothing to install on Remote Hosts
- Ansible Control Node can scale to manage hundreds of nodes and it is very simple
- Built-in Stuff to do most of the automation
What Do I Need to Know?
- Connecting to a remote machine using SSH
- Public/Private keys for SSH
- Interact with Linux bash shell
- Install packages
- Basics of working in Linux
- sudo
- file & folder permissions
- set environmental variables
- We use ansible to deploy applications on servers, we should know how to do the deployment and configuration manually.
Setting up local system and pre-requisite’s for DevOps
- Create an Azure free tier account Refer Here
- Refer Here to create AWS account
- Install necessary software’s on your system Refer Here
- Installing Windows Terminal Refer Here
Lab Setup:
- We would be using the following Lab setup
- We need 2 ubuntu 18 virtual machines & one centos 7 VM
- For this lab I will be using AWS Cloud
- Setting up Ansible Control Node
- Refer Here for the ansible installation guide and Refer Here for ubuntu specific installation
- Execute the following commands
sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt install ansible
ansible --version
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