Variables hold values that can be used when playbooks are executed. It can be defined in: Inventory file (host scope) Playbook (play scope) Defined globally (global scope) Play scope In the below example variables are…
In this example we will write a simple playbook in Ansible, that will create a new user in a managed host. For this we need to ensure the managed host is present in the “inventory”…
A simple Ansible inventory file is a txt file that has a list of managed hosts and groups. A simple Inventory can be as follows: [root@centos9vm ~]# cat inventory == ===== 192.168.132.129 servera.example.com [webservers] servera.example.com…
The ansible-navigator is a command-line tool which is used for creating, reviewing, running and troubleshooting Ansible content, including playbooks, collections, inventories, documentation and container images. It comes with RHEL distributions and can be installed using…
Ansible Playbook comprises of one or more plays, which in turn consists tasks. The Playbook consists of Modules, APIs and Plugins. Modules consists of the Tasks to be executed. APIs are used for CLI access…
Ansible is an opensource automation tool used for Configuration Management. It is used for Application Deployment and server provisioning. It works on an agent less architecture on client nodes. It used a simple language called…