Ansible contd

Activity 1

• Write an ansible playbook to deploy a website
• manual steps for ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx -y
cd /tmp
wget https://www.free-css.com/assets/files/free-css-templates/download/page295/antique-cafe.zip
sudo apt install unzip -y
unzip antique-cafe.zip
sudo mv 2126_antique_cafe/ /var/www/html/cafe

• Ansible Playbook
• To execute Ansible playbook the command will be ansible-playbook -i hosts <playbook.yaml>
• Ansible output will contain
  • play info
  • an additional task called as gather_facts
  • task info
• The info will contain
  • ok
  • changed
  • unreachable
  • failed
  • skipped
  • rescued
  • ignored
• We have written the playbook where we got the website deployed at url http://<publicip>/cafe/2126_antique_cafe
  • sequence changed Refer Here
  • sequence followed Refer Here
• Ansible verbosity

Exercise:

• Try installing apache and php

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 -y
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

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WOW (Ways of Working) – Playbook writing

• Ensure you have working manual steps
• Find a module for each step an represent as task