Ansible Essentials - Live Lab Tutorial

In this live lab tutorial, you'll learn the essentials of Ansible, the popular open-source automation tool. Ansible is used by developers and system administrators to automate configuration management, application deployment, and other IT tasks.

We'll go through the step-by-step process of using Ansible to automate a simple task, such as installing a package or configuring a server. You'll learn how to write Ansible playbooks, which are scripts that describe the tasks to be performed, and how to use Ansible modules, which are pre-built functions that can be used to perform common tasks.

Whether you're a developer or a system administrator, this tutorial will give you the knowledge and skills you need to start using Ansible to automate your IT tasks and save time and effort.

In this live-lab tutorial, you'll learn:

The basics of Ansible, including its architecture and components
How to write Ansible playbooks to automate tasks
How to use Ansible modules to perform common tasks
Best practices for using Ansible to manage your IT infrastructure
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This is a LAB on Ansible playground.
This is a simple work along love LAB on ansible for CTFE Feb2023 session. Please find the sample file we used in our test run

- install ansible
- create a directory/folder
- create two wiles myhost.txt and sample.yml and past the content below respectively.
- Run "ansible-playbook -I myhost.txt sample.yml


For practice

txt file

myhost.txt


[webservers]
server1 ansible_server=127.0.0.11 ansible_connection=local deprecation_warning=false
server2 ansible_server=127.0.0.12 ansible_connection=local INTERPRETER_PYTHON=auto_silent
server3 ansible_server=127.0.0.13 ansible_connection=local
server4 ansible_server=127.0.0.14 ansible_connection=local
server5 ansible_server=127.0.0.15 ansible_connection=local


For ansible playbook

sample.yml

---
- name: "My second orchestration"
hosts: "webservers"
# becomes: true

tasks:
- name: "test reachability tests"
ping:

- name: install kind
homebrew:
name: kind
state: "latest"

- name: install minicube
homebrew:
name: "minikube"
state: "latest"

Then run "ansible-playbook -I myhost .txt sample.yml
Please replay "home-brew with apt" for ubuntu or use your package manager