nimgeneva / ansible

Ansible Administration. Generic playbooks for routine sys admin jobs. A lot of practical use cases which are not a part of any training curriculum like database backups using ansible.

Ansible

Some sample playbooks for Ansible Course

http://networknuts.net

Usage

Use this to execute an ad-hoc command.

ansible hostname -m modulename -a 'arguments'

Use the syntax-check command to check syntax in a playbook.

ansible-playbook *playbookname.yml* --syntax-check

Use this to execute a playbook.

ansible-playbook *playbookname.yml*

Use this check ansible documentation for a module.

ansible-doc *modulename*

Chapter 2: Introduction to Playbooks

This introduces you to the world of Ansible playbooks. Here you will find playbooks for basic tasks.

Chapter 3: Multiple Plays

This chapter contains playbooks with multiple plays inside of them. It illustrates how to use playbooks effectively.

Chapter 4: Variables in Ansible

This chapter focuses on making our code reusable in different situations by using the concepts of variables.

Chapter 5: Loops in Ansible

In this chapter, we see playbooks where loops are being used to minimize duplication of tasks.

Chapter 6: Conditions in Ansible

Ansible conditions teach us how to adapt our playbooks to different conditions such as only running plays when certain conditions are true.

Chapter 7: Ansible Handlers

This chapter shows how to use Ansible Handlers to only perform certain tasks when needed.

Chapter 8: Task Failure Handling

Task Failure or a failure in our Playbooks will happen. This chapter shows us how to handle errors in our Playbooks.

Chapter 9: Templating in Ansible

Creating custom files depending upon the environment is important, playbooks in this chapter shows us how to do so using the Ansible Templating Engine known as Jinja2.