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ansible_playbook

Ansible Playbook​

Example playbook file: 

---
  # Play1 - WebServer related tasks
  - name: Play Web - Create apache directories and username in web servers
    hosts: webservers
    become: yes
    become_user: root
    tasks:
      - name: create username apacheadm
        user:
          name: apacheadm
          group: users,admin
          shell: /bin/bash
          home: /home/weblogic

      - name: install httpd
        yum:
          name: httpd
          state: installed
        
  # Play2 - Application Server related tasks
  - name: Play app - Create tomcat directories and username in app servers
    hosts: appservers
    become: yes
    become_user: root
    tasks:
      - name: Create a username for tomcat
        user:
          name: tomcatadm
          group: users
          shell: /bin/bash
          home: /home/tomcat

      - name: create a directory for apache tomcat
        file:
          path: /opt/oracle
          owner: tomcatadm
          group: users
          state: present
          mode: 0755

Example hosts file:

File: ansible_hosts 

[webservers]
mwivmweb01
mwivmweb02

How to ping the server​

/usr/local/Cellar/ansible/5.7.1/bin/ansible 18.216.84.227 -m ping -i ./inventory -u ec2-user

How to run a playbook​

$ /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/5.7.1/bin/ansible 18.216.84.227 -i ./inventory -u ec2-user -a "ansible-playbook /home/ec2-user/ansible_test/HelloWorld.yaml"