Program 1 – Write a Ansible Adhoc Commands to create a group called “deploy
How to verify?
$ more /etc/group | grep deploy
Program 2 – Write a Ansible Adhoc Commands to create a user called “deploy-user” which is part of group called “deploy” and with /bin/bash shell.
How to verify?
$ more /etc/passwd | grep deploy-user
Program 3 – Write a Ansible Adhoc commands install package named “httpd” in RHEL/centos.
How to verify?
$ which httpd
Program 4 – Write a Ansible Adhoc commands to start and enable the service named “httpd”
How to verify?
$ ps -eaf | grep httpd
Program 5 – Write a Ansible commands to create a file called “index.html” in /var/www/html with some dummy html contents.
How to verify?
Browse http://x.x.x.x:80
Program 6 – Write a Ansible commands to copy a file called “second.html” in /var/www/html/second.html with some dummy html contents.
How to verify?
Browse http://x.x.x.x/second.html
Program 7 – Write a Ansible commands to install a package called “git”, “wget”.
How to verify?
$ which git
$ which wget
Program 8 – Write a Ansible Adhoc commands to clone git repo. https://github.com/scmgalaxy/ansible-role-template.
How to verify?
$ ls
Program 9 – Write a Ansible commands to reboot a self machine.
Program 10 – Write a Ansible commands to touch a file called “devopsschool.txt” in /opt/ and delete after using ansible adhoc command.
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root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# ansible all -i inventory -m group -a “state=present name=deploy” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
34.226.195.116 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“changed”: false,
“gid”: 1001,
“name”: “deploy”,
“state”: “present”,
“system”: false
}
54.174.239.89 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“changed”: false,
“gid”: 1001,
“name”: “deploy”,
“state”: “present”,
“system”: false
}
54.85.203.183 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“changed”: false,
“gid”: 1001,
“name”: “deploy”,
“state”: “present”,
“system”: false
}
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# more /etc/group | grep deploy
deploy:x:1001:
deploydfhh:x:1002:
2
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# ansible all -i inventory -m user -a “name=deploy-user groups=deploy state=present shell=/bin/bash” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b 54.174.239.89 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“append”: false,
“changed”: false,
“comment”: “”,
“group”: 1001,
“groups”: “deploy”,
“home”: “/home/deploy-user”,
“move_home”: false,
“name”: “deploy-user”,
“shell”: “/bin/bash”,
“state”: “present”,
“uid”: 1001
}
34.226.195.116 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“append”: false,
“changed”: false,
“comment”: “”,
“group”: 1001,
“groups”: “deploy”,
“home”: “/home/deploy-user”,
“move_home”: false,
“name”: “deploy-user”,
“shell”: “/bin/bash”,
“state”: “present”,
“uid”: 1001
}
54.85.203.183 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“append”: false,
“changed”: false,
“comment”: “”,
“group”: 1001,
“groups”: “deploy”,
“home”: “/home/deploy-user”,
“move_home”: false,
“name”: “deploy-user”,
“shell”: “/bin/bash”,
“state”: “present”,
“uid”: 1001
}
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# more /etc/passwd | grep deploy-user
deploy-user:x:1001:1001::/home/deploy-user:/bin/bash
3
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# ansible web -i inventory -m apt -a”state=latest name=httpd” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
54.174.239.89 | FAILED! => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“cache_update_time”: 1695090101,
“cache_updated”: false,
“changed”: false,
“msg”: “‘/usr/bin/apt-get -y -o \”Dpkg::Options::=–force-confdef\” -o \”Dpkg::Options::=–force-confold\” install ‘httpd” failed: E: Package ‘httpd’ has no installation candidate\n”,
“rc”: 100,
“stderr”: “E: Package ‘httpd’ has no installation candidate\n”,
“stderr_lines”: [
“E: Package ‘httpd’ has no installation candidate”
],
“stdout”: “Reading package lists…\nBuilding dependency tree…\nReading state information…\nPackage httpd is a virtual package provided by:\n nginx-core 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4\n apache2 2.4.52-1ubuntu4.6\n\n”,
“stdout_lines”: [
“Reading package lists…”,
“Building dependency tree…”,
“Reading state information…”,
“Package httpd is a virtual package provided by:”,
” nginx-core 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4″,
” apache2 2.4.52-1ubuntu4.6″,
“”
]
}
54.85.203.183 | FAILED! => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“cache_update_time”: 1698931978,
“cache_updated”: false,
“changed”: false,
“msg”: “‘/usr/bin/apt-get -y -o \”Dpkg::Options::=–force-confdef\” -o \”Dpkg::Options::=–force-confold\” install ‘httpd” failed: E: Package ‘httpd’ has no installation candidate\n”,
“rc”: 100,
“stderr”: “E: Package ‘httpd’ has no installation candidate\n”,
“stderr_lines”: [
“E: Package ‘httpd’ has no installation candidate”
],
“stdout”: “Reading package lists…\nBuilding dependency tree…\nReading state information…\nPackage httpd is a virtual package provided by:\n nginx-light 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4\n nginx-full 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4\n nginx-extras 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4\n lighttpd 1.4.63-1ubuntu3.1\n nginx-core 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4\n apache2 2.4.52-1ubuntu4.6\n yaws 2.1.1+dfsg-1\n webfs 1.21+ds1-12\n tntnet 2.2.1-4build2\n mini-httpd 1.30-2build1\n micro-httpd 20140814-2.1\n\n”,
“stdout_lines”: [
“Reading package lists…”,
“Building dependency tree…”,
“Reading state information…”,
“Package httpd is a virtual package provided by:”,
” nginx-light 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4″,
” nginx-full 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4″,
” nginx-extras 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4″,
” lighttpd 1.4.63-1ubuntu3.1″,
” nginx-core 1.18.0-6ubuntu14.4″,
” apache2 2.4.52-1ubuntu4.6″,
” yaws 2.1.1+dfsg-1″,
” webfs 1.21+ds1-12″,
” tntnet 2.2.1-4build2″,
” mini-httpd 1.30-2build1″,
” micro-httpd 20140814-2.1″,
“”
]
}
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# ansible web -i inventory -m apt -a”state=latest name=apache2″ -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
54.174.239.89 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“cache_update_time”: 1695090101,
“cache_updated”: false,
“changed”: false
}
54.85.203.183 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“cache_update_time”: 1698931978,
“cache_updated”: false,
“changed”: false
}
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# which apache2
/usr/sbin/apache2
4
ansible all -i inventory -m service -a”name=apache2 state=started” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# ps -fea| grep http
root 17682 7732 35 16:06 pts/33 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/ansible all -i 54.85.203.183,54.174.239.89,34.226.195.116 -m apt -a name=httpd>=2.4 state=latest -u ubuntu –key=node.pem -b
root 17686 17682 1 16:06 pts/33 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/ansible all -i 54.85.203.183,54.174.239.89,34.226.195.116 -m apt -a name=httpd>=2.4 state=latest -u ubuntu –key=node.pem -b
root 17748 17737 0 16:06 pts/27 00:00:00 /usr/bin/apt-mark manual httpd
root 17752 5990 0 16:06 pts/24 00:00:00 grep –color=auto http
5
ansible all -i inventory -m copy -a”src=index.html dest=/var/www/html/index.html” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# ansible web -i inventory -m apt -a”state=latest name=git” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
54.174.239.89 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“cache_update_time”: 1695090101,
“cache_updated”: false,
“changed”: false
}
54.85.203.183 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“cache_update_time”: 1698931978,
“cache_updated”: false,
“changed”: false
}
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# ansible web -i inventory -m apt -a”state=latest name=wget” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
54.174.239.89 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“cache_update_time”: 1695090101,
“cache_updated”: false,
“changed”: false
}
54.85.203.183 | SUCCESS => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python3”
},
“cache_update_time”: 1698931978,
“cache_updated”: false,
“changed”: false
}
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# which git
/usr/bin/git
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~# which wget
/usr/bin/wget
root@ip-172-31-24-147:~#
Tested on Ubuntu OS.
ansible all -i inventory -m group -a”name=deploy state=present” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible all -i inventory -m user -a”name=deploy-user group=deploy shell=/bin/bash” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible web -i inventory -m apt -a”state=latest name=apache2″ -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible web -i inventory -m service -a”name=apache2 state=started” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible web -i inventory -m copy -a”src=index.html dest=/var/www/html/” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible web -i inventory -m copy -a”content=’second file content’ dest=/var/www/html/second.html” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible web -i inventory -m apt -a”state=present name=git,wget” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible web -i inventory -m git -a”repo=https://github.com/scmgalaxy/ansible-role-template dest=/root/ansible-role-template clone=yes update=yes” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible web -i inventory -m reboot -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible web -i inventory -m file -a”path=/opt/devopsschool.txt state=touch” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
ansible web -i inventory -m file -a”path=/opt/devopsschool.txt state=absent” -u ubuntu –key-file=node.pem -b
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