Question

Configure Ansible to deploy webserver, and bring it up a port 80 with a web page that is publically accessible that displays the message: “Hello World”.

Include in the Ansible playbook, plays to deploy and un-deploy the resources

Answer 1

[root@controller ~]# pwd
/root
[root@controller ~]# mkdir playbooks
[root@controller ~]# cd playbooks
[root@controller playbooks]# pwd
/root/playbooks

In this directory, I’ll then create the following file:

[root@controller playbooks]# cat HelloWorld.yml
---
- name: This is a hello-world example
hosts: ansibleclient01.local
tasks:
- name: Create a file called '/tmp/testfile.txt' with the content 'hello world'.
copy:
content: "hello world\n"
dest: /tmp/testfile.txt

execute this playbook using the “ansible-playbook” command:

[root@controller playbooks]# ansible-playbook HelloWorld.yml

PLAY [This is a hello-world example] *******************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [ansibleclient01.local]

TASK [Create a file called '/tmp/testfile.txt' with the content 'hello world'.]
changed: [ansibleclient01.local]

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
ansibleclient01.local : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0

This results in the following file being created on the client:

[root@ansibleclient01 /]# cat /tmp/testfile.txt
hello world