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Cloud Automation Workshop 1

Configuration Management - using Ansible

This Gudance is about Ansible Configuration Management on AWS Cloud (EC2 Instance) to configure nginx webserver.

#Prerequisite:

1. Create AWS Account
2. Spin up a new EC2 Instance using AMI2 distrubution
3. Enable ssh service (port 22/tcp) from any source via AWS Security Group attached with EC2 instance created above.
4. Enable Password Authentication of each instance (/etc/ssh/sshd_config) PasswordAuthentication yes systemctl restart sshd

#Local setup with SSH authentications:

1. Create ssh keys on Control Node (from ec2-user) ssh-keygen

2. Copy ssh key (public key) to manage nodes (as ec2-user) ssh-copy-id ec2-user@instance-ip

#Ansible Installation:

1. Install Ansible
2. Add IP Address of Manage nodes into following files. ansible/inventory ansible/roles/deploy_nginx/test/inventory

#Execute Ansible Playbook

1. Run "install_repo_update.yml" to install packages and update packages

2. Run "playbook.yml" to run nginx deployment