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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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Path Info

Level

Beginner

Duration

15m

Last updated

Aug 19, 2025

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:
```
&lt;Directory />
   AllowOverride none
   Require all denied
&lt;/Directory>

DocumentRoot "{{ webdir }}html"

&lt;Directory "{{ webdir }}">
   AllowOverride None
   Require all granted
&lt;/Directory>
```
Note that there are more places /var/www needs to be changed to {{ variable name }}, these are just two.

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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