Ansible Contd

• Rather than defining the variables in the playbook, we have created a file defaults.yml and defined the variables over there. Refer Here for the changes
• Now to avoid unnecessary executions, we can use stat module Refer Here.
• Used stat and register to store the value and use it in other tasks.
• Now execute the command
• Refer Here for the changes to contain the files to be copied
• Now we have written a playbook which works on ubuntu servers to install tomcat9 and jdk 11.
• Lets try to create a better folder structure for our playbook Refer Here for the changeset
• Now lets extend our playbook to work on centos 7 Refer Here
• To make our playbook to work on centos7 we need to just change the way we install java
• Refer Here for the changeset containing changes to run on ubuntu and centos and also has host and group variables
• Refer Here for the playbook.
• Note: This playbook is better than the previous apache playbook but it still needs imporvement
  • Copying static files leads to problems, if there is way where we can copy the files with some dynamic content

Hint for nop commerce installation

• The playbook for automating first few steps are as shown below

---
- name: install nop commerce
  become: yes
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: download the debian file
      get_url:
        url: https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb
        dest: /tmp/packages-microsoft-prod.deb
    - name: install the debian package
      apt:
        deb: /tmp/packages-microsoft-prod.deb
    - name: install .net core runtimes
      apt:
        name: "{{ item }}"
        update_cache: yes
        state: present
      with_items:
       - apt-transport-https 
       - aspnetcore-runtime-3.1
    - 
    

• Refer Here for all the steps.