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Learn Ansible
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Learn Ansible

by Russ McKendrick
June 2018
Beginner
578 pages
13h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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An example playbook

Before we complete this chapter, I am going to share an example playbook I wrote for deploying a small number of virtual machines in a VMware cluster. The idea with the project was to launch seven virtual machines into a customer's network which are as follows:

  • One Linux jump host
  • One NTP server
  • One load balancer
  • Two web servers
  • Two database servers

The VMs all had to be built from an existing template; unfortunately, this template was built with a hardcoded gateway IP address of 192.168.1.254 in the /etc/sysconfig/network file. This meant that for these machines to correctly appear on the network, I had to make changes to each of the virtual machines once they had been launched.

I started off by setting up a file called ...

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ISBN: 9781788998758