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Using Templates with Ansible
Templating is a powerful tool that we can add to our Ansible arsenal, enabling us to set up some interesting configurations quickly. This lab will help us practice with that tool. *This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*

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Challenge
Write a Template to Replace the Document Root in httpd.conf and Any Other Configurations Required
Using the provided httpd.template, replace all occurences of /var/www/ with {{ variable_name}} - similar to the following. This will let us update the directory with the use of a variable:
<Directory /> AllowOverride none Require all denied </Directory> DocumentRoot "{{ webdir }}html" <Directory "{{ webdir }}"> AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory>
Note that there are more places
/var/www
needs to be changed to{{ variable name }}
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Challenge
Write a Playbook to Deploy the Template to the webserver Group
Your playbook should look similar to this:
--- - name: Template playbook hosts: webservers become: yes vars: webdir: '/opt/' tasks: - name: Deploy the web template template: src: /root/httpd.template dest: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
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