Ansible Exercise

• Write an Ansible Playbook for deploying an apache server in the ubuntu instance and installing php
• Refer Here for the documentation (skip mysql)
• Manual Steps

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 -y
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql -y
# create a file in the path /var/www/html/info.php with content
# <?php phpinfo( ); ?>
sudo systemctl enable apache2
sudo systemctl start apache2

• Refer Here for the playbook developed in the class. Execute this playbook by copying playbook and info.php file on ansible control node. Add your hosts file

ansible-playbook -i hosts phpapache.yaml

• The other team also wants the same stuff but they want apache and php to run on centos7
• Manual steps for centos 7 : Refer Here

sudo yum install httpd -y
sudo yum install php php-mysql
# create a file in the path /var/www/html/info.php with content
# <?php phpinfo( ); ?>
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd

• Playbook

---
- name: installing apache and php
  become: yes
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: install apache and update ubuntu packages
      ansible.builtin.yum:
        name: httpd
        state: present
    - name: install php packages
      ansible.builtin.yum:
        name:
          - php
          - php-mysql
        state: present
    - name: copy the info.php
      ansible.builtin.copy:
        src: info.php
        dest: /var/www/html/info.php
    - name: ensure the apache service is running and enabled
      ansible.builtin.systemd:
        name: httpd
        enabled: yes
        state: started

• Exercise:
  • Try installing tomcat 9 on ubuntu 20 using the steps Refer Here
  • Try install tomcat on centos 7 Refer Here