Ansible

A small intro about ansible, variables, roles and playbooks

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1. Jasim Muhammed
2. ME? • Senior Software Engineer @ Nuventure, working for Rightside. • Hacking flask, SQLAlchemy, grunt, jQuery, Jenkins and Ansible. • Do lot of other things with team :)
3. WHAT IS ANSIBLE? • Meaning: fictitious machine capable of faster communication than light
4. WHAT IS ANSIBLE? • Ansible is a configuration management and provisioning tool, similar to Chef, Puppet or Salt • Automates the job of ‘manual configuration’ and setting up of servers, machines
5. ADVANTAGES OF ANSIBLE • Ansible is setup on one computer or VM, and could control other VMS via SSH • No client installation is needed on remote machines • Simple to code, using YAML files and INI • Jinja2 variables support
6. VARIABLES, INVENTORY, ROLES PLAYBOOKS,
7. VARIABLES • YAML files • Defining a set of variables for set of host groups/hosts
8. INVENTORY • INI Files • Helps to group hosts
9. ROLES • YAML files • A series of tasks to execute • Configuration files are generated from templates • Variables are filled in tasks and templates at runtime
10. PLAYBOOKS • YAML files • A series of roles executed together on a group of machines
11. Running ping on all servers
12. Typical Ansible folder structure
13. hello@jasimmk.ninja http://jasimmk.ninja THANKS