Ansible Workshop

About Me

Agenda

• What is Ansible
• Installation
• Ansible modules
• Ansible variables
• Ansible playbook
• Demo

What is Ansible

• IT automation tool
• Deploy, Manage and Configure applications

Installation

• RPM family - yum install ansible
• Debian / Ubuntu - apt-get install ansible
• pip install ansible

Ansible Modules

• Control system resources
• Supports arguments
• Written in Python

Ansible Variables

• Inventory variables
• Playbook variables
• Discovered variables or Facts

Ansible Playbook

• YAML file
• Set of instructions
• Has host details
• Variables to read from

Sample Playbook

---
- name: install and start httpd service
  hosts: webservers
  user: cloud-user
  sudo: yes
  tasks:
     - name: Install / Check apache is intalled
       yum: name=httpd state=present
     - name: Start / Check apache service
       service: name=httpd state=started

Demo

Documentation

• http://docs.ansible.com/
• http://docs.ansible.com/list_of_all_modules.html

Slides / Code

• https://github.com/rishabhdas/GitLab-Ansible.git

Thank You