DevOps Classroom Series – 12/May/2021

Revisiting the Playbook created

• Refer Here for the playbook created
• Added vars section in the playbook to define variables Refer Here for the change set
• Create a change set for testing variables Refer Here
• Ansible variables can be defined at multiple places and they have some priority which is referred as precedence
• At this moment lets try to understand about ansible inventories
• In Ansible there is a default inventory located at /etc/ansible/hosts and if we don’t pass the -i to ansible-playbook or ansible command the inventory file considered would be the default inventory

Creating Inventories

• Inventories can be created in two formats in ansible
  • INI:
    • Refer Here to understand INI files and formats
  • YAML
• Sample INI based inventory Refer Here
• Sample YAML Based inventory Refer Here

Next Steps:

• Adding variables to the inventory