Mastering PHP 7

Configuring Ansible

Back on our workstation machine, let's go ahead and create a project directory:

mkdir mphp7cd mphp7/

Now, let's go ahead and create an ansible.cfg file with its content as follows:

[defaults]hostfile = hosts

Next, let's go ahead and create the hosts file with its content as follows:

[mphp7]45.76.88.214 ansible_ssh_user=root

In the preceding lines of code, 45.76.88.214 is the IP address of our server machine.

We should now be able to run the ansible tool as follows:

ansible mphp7 -m ping

Ideally, this should give us the following output:

The ansible tool might throw a MODULE FAILURE message in the case of a missing ...