Ansible magic variables
- Refer Here for the official docs of the magic variables
- Magic variables cannot be set by the user and are set by ansible
- Lets write a small playbook to display some magic variables. Refer Here for the changeset containing magic variables
- Connection Variables: These variables can be used to change the way ansible executes the playbook Refer Here. Refer Here for the changes done
Ansible Logging Settings
- Refer Here for changing the logging settings of ansible
Ansible with Windows Server
- Ansible control node has to be linux server, where as ansible nodes can be windows servers also
- Windows servers do not support ssh, they have a protocol which is referred as winrm
- Winrm setup on windows server
- Create a windows server and ensure this server is accesible from Ansible control node
- Ansible use winRM protocol to establish the communication with Windows Hosts
- Ansible requires atleast Powershell 3.0 or newer and atleast .net 4.0
- Steps for configuring windows Node:
- Login into windows node
- Launch Powershell as Admin and execute the following steps Refer Here
- Create a file with the following content c:\ConfigureAnsibleRemoting.ps1
- Refer Here to this classroom notes for configuring windows server as an ansible node
- Check the win_ping with the inventory with following content
[winserver]
172.31.14.142
[winserver:vars]
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_user=Administrator
ansible_password=MMJ46-z@%Q$v(PZXtpIAigXNnKNQY$!)
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore
* Refer Here for the modules for windows servers
- Refer Here for the changes done to install some softwares on windows
- Refer Here for the changes added to install iis server
Ansible Vault
- Refer Here for Features of Ansible Vault.
- Refer Here the following blog for playing with ansible vault
Ansible Tower
- The video for this will be shared and use that as a reference to understand ansible tower
Ansible Integration with Jenkins
- Ansible Control Node will be a node in Jenkins.
- While creating Jenkins pipeline, we use the node where ansible is installed, get the latest playbooks to install the software in various environments and call the ansible-playbook command line from jenkins pipelines
Ansible Integration with Azure DevOps
- Ansible control node will be an agent in azure devops and from azure devops pipeline we get the latest playbooks and execute the ansible-playbook command.
