Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

Preparing the environment

To see how we can deploy the code in the various ways we talked about in the previous pages, we will need an environment, and obviously we are going to create it using Ansible. First of all, to ensure that our roles are properly loaded, we need the ansible.cfg file with the following content:

[defaults] 
roles_path = roles 

Then we need the playbooks/firstrun.yaml to ensure that we can configure our machines with a basic configuration, with the following content:

- hosts: all user: root tasks: - name: Ensure ansible user exists user: name: ansible state: present comment: Ansible - name: Ensure ansible user accepts the SSH key authorized_key: user: ansible key: https://github.com/fale.keys state: present - name: Ensure the ...