Ansible Playbook Essentials

Our first playbook

Equipped with the basic rules explained previously and assuming readers have done a quick dive into YAML fundamentals, we will now begin writing our first playbook. Our problem statement includes the following:

1. Create a devops user on all hosts. This user should be part of the devops group.
2. Install the "htop" utility. Htop is an improved version of top—an interactive system process monitor.
3. Add the Nginx repository to the web servers and start it as a service.

Now, we will create our first playbook and save it as simple_playbook.yml containing the following code:

--- - hosts: all remote_user: vagrant sudo: yes tasks: - group: name: devops state: present - name: create devops user with admin privileges user: name: devops comment: ...