Hybrid Cloud for Architects

Configuring Ansible and a sample playbook 

Now, we will perform the following steps: 

• Create a file with server IP address and group name (Ansible hosts file) 
• Create a playbook to install Apache and start it

By default, Ansible expects the Ansible hosts file at the location /etc/ansible/hosts and it expects its configuration in a file called ansible.cfg in the current directory.

The contents of the Ansible host file (/etc/ansible/hosts) is as follows:

[sample-group]10.128.0.3

This simply means that there is a group called sample-group and it has only one server (10.128.0.3). We will now write a playbook file in order to install the Apache and start it.

Create an apache-playbook.yml file:

---- hosts: sample-group remote_user: alokshrivastwa ...