Ansible Training Course

Introduction to Ansible
 What is IaC ?

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) uses a high-

level descriptive coding language to
automate the provisioning of IT
infrastructure.
-IBM
 What’s Ansible ?
• Ansible is an open source IT Configuration
Management, deployment, and orchestration
tool.

• Ansible has modules for Provisioning

containers, virtualization, cloud vendors.

• Ansible lets you control and configure remote

nodes from a single machine.
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Running modules
Ad’hoc commands
• Ad hoc commands are commands which can be run
individually to perform quick functions.
• These ad-hoc commands are not used for configuration
management and deployment, because these commands are
of one time usage.
• To find out if all the hosts are up and running, use the
following ad’hoc command that uses the ping module of
Ansible

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Playbooks
database.yml

# ansible-playbook database.yml
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Variables
• There are few places where you can define variables in an
Ansible playbook.

 In the inventory file

 In the playbook

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Lists
• Every element(member) of list should be written in a
new line with same indentation starting with “- “ (-
and space).

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 Facts
• Facts are information derived from speaking with your
remote systems. You can find a complete set under
the ansible_facts variable.

• Disabling Facts

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Ansible Vault
• To create a new encrypted data file, run the
following command:

• Ywill be prompted for a password, then the

tool will launch “vi” editor.
• To run a playbook where data is encrypted
with vault, add the option :

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