Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

Remote command execution

There are a few servers and the system admin wants to install nginx service in all of them. Instead of manually logging in followed by installing and starting the service, she/he decides to write a simple Ansible role to do the same:

• Write an Ansible role with the needed tasks: In the first step, we write an Ansible role that defines what exactly we want to do. In our case, since we want to install nginx and start the service, you will see that there are two tasks, first for installing nginx and second for starting the nginx service:

• Define the inventory file: Once our Ansible role is ready, it's now time to define ...