Ansible

loops in ansible

• Loops can be used to iterate a task with multiple values.

handlers

• Handlers are like tasks but they react to events

Deploying a .net core applicaton

• Lets try deploying a .net core application nopCommerce
• Refer Here for the steps
• Overview
  
• Note: we will be skipping the db installation as of now
• Manual steps
  • install dotnet 8 SDK/Runtime
  • install unzip
  • Create a user to run nopCommerce service
  • Download nopCommerce
  • Create a servicefile
  • enable and start the service

sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0
sudo useradd -m -d /var/lib/nopCommerce nop
mkdir /tmp/nopCommerce
cd /tmp/nopCommerce
wget https://github.com/nopSolutions/nopCommerce/releases/download/release-4.70.5/nopCommerce_4.70.5_NoSource_linux_x64.zip
unzip nopCommerce_4.70.5_NoSource_linux_x64.zip
mkdir bin logs
sudo mv /tmp/nopCommerce /var/lib/nopCommerce
sudo chown -R nop:nop /var/lib/nopCommerce
# create a service file
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable nopCommerce.service
sudo systemctl start nopCommerce.service

• Refer Here for the changes done to
  • install dotnet and unzip
  • create a nop User
  • download and extract zip
• Refer Here for the creating directories
• Refer Here for changes done to copy the service file and enable, start service
• Refer Here for the addition of hanlder to reload daemon, enable and restart the service on change, but normally ensure the service is running

Reusability in Ansible

• The following options provide reusability in ansible
  • include or import playbooks
  • roles:
    • This is a way to make a playbook reusable
  • collections
    • This is a way to make a playbook as well as custom module reusable
• Ansible Galaxy: This is where we find community roles and modules