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Using Ansible Modules to Manage File Content in Your Environment

When your web devs come up with an update to an application and you need to deploy it to 100 servers (sometimes more) doing so manually is a difficult task. While there are many ways to automate this process Ansible can handle it in addition to everything else it does. This lab will walk through a method of doing so. *This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Jul 09, 2025
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Deploy `index.html`

    Your playbook should look something like:

    ---
    - name: copy webapp
      hosts: webservers
      become: yes
       
      tasks:
       - name: install webapp
         copy:
          src: /root/index.html
          dest: /var/www/html/index.html
          owner: apache
          group: apache
          mode: 0644
    
  2. Challenge

    Copy and Execute the `db deploy` (deploy.sh) Script

    There are two different methods of doing this in a playbook.

    The first is to use script, but it is commented out. Both can be seen in this code snippet.

    - name: copy db script
      hosts: dbservers
      become: yes
    
      tasks: 
       - name: copy deploy script
    #    script: /root/deploy.sh
         copy:
          src: /root/deploy.sh
          dest: /opt/deploy.sh
          owner: root
          group: root
          mode: 0755
    
       - name: Execute the script
         command: sh /opt/deploy.sh
    

    Run the playbook with this:

    ansible-playbook filedeploy.yml
    
  3. Challenge

    Redeploy `index.html`

    You should not include the db deploy in this playbook.

    ---
    
    - name: copy webapp
     hosts: webservers
     become: yes
    
     tasks:
      - name: install webapp
        copy:
         src: /root/index2.html
         dest: /var/www/html/index.html
         owner: apache
         group: apache
         mode: 0644
    

    Run the playbook again:

    ansible-playbook filedeploy.yml
    
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