In this section we will use ansible to create new EC2 instances on AWS and further work on these instances. These operations can be completely automated using ansible. Setup Environment for AWS provisioning We ...
Let us continue our Ansible Tutorial with Ansible vault. Ansible version 2.3 supports encrypting single variables using an Ansible single encrypted variable with the !vault tag. In this article we will see some ansible vault ...
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In this article we will create ansible role from scratch using ansible galaxy init. In our earlier article I gave you an overview on ansible role directory structure. Now we will use that directory structure ...
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In this article I will give you an overview on Ansible Roles directory structure. When working with Ansible it is recommended to use project directories so that contents can be organised in a consistent way. ...
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In this section we will use include and import module to add another tasks or complete playbook into another playbook. include module Use include module to add tasks to the playbook We can create ...
Blocks in Ansible allow you to logically group a set of tasks together, primarily for one of two purposes. One might be to apply conditional logic to an entire set of tasks. We can use ...
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Ansible tags are another great feature which can help you execute respective tasks from the playbook. By default all the tasks from the playbook are executed but with tags we can control this behaviour and ...
Oftentimes, we will want to perform a single task, but use that single task to iterate over a set of data. For example, you might not want to create one user account but 10. Or ...
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