Table of Contents

1. Challenge

   Verify Connectivity in the Environment

   On the command line run ansible -m ping all.

2. Challenge

   Install httpd

   Your playbook, webservers.yml should look something like this:

   ---
   # Common Modules Playbook
   #
   
   - name: Common Modules Playbook
     become: yes
     hosts: webservers
   
     tasks:
      - name: Install httpd on webservers
        yum:
         name: httpd
         state: present
   

3. Challenge

   Start and Enable the httpd Service

   In this task all we have to do is add the following to the webservers.yml playbook:

      - name: Start the httpd service
        service:
         name: httpd
         state: started
         enabled: yes
   

4. Challenge

   Create a dba User Account

   Your playbook, dbserver.yml, should look similar to this:

   ---
   
   - name: DB server playbook
     become: yes
     hosts: dbservers
   
     tasks:
      - name: Add the 'dba' user to the dbservers
        user:
          name: dba
   

5. Challenge

   Copy the Required File

   You can add to your dbserver.yml playbook something similar to the following:

      - name: Copy required DBA files
        copy:
         src: /root/DBAstuff.txt
         dest: /home/dba/
         owner: dba
         group: dba
         mode: 0600
   

6. Challenge

   Create /var/www/html/index.html

   The final addition to your webserver.yml playbook should look similar to:

      - name: Create index.html
        file:
         path: /var/www/html/index.html
         state: touch
   

7. Challenge

   Clone the Ansible Git Repository into /opt on adminservers

   Your admin.yml playbook will look something like this:

   ---
   
   - name: Use git to clone the Ansible repo
     hosts: admins
     become: yes
   
     tasks:
      - name: Install git
        yum:
         name: git
         state: present
   
      - name: Use the git module
        git:
         repo: https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
         dest: /opt