Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

Chapter 6. Orchestrating with Ansible

In this chapter, the following recipes will be addressed:

• Installing Ansible
• Configuring the Ansible inventory
• Creating the template for a kickstart file
• Creating a playbook to deploy a new VM with kickstart
• Creating a playbook to perform system configuration tasks
• Troubleshooting Ansible

Introduction

Ansible is an easy-to-use agentless system configuration management tool. It allows us to deploy complex configurations without the hassle of a complex interface or language.

Ansible uses playbooks, which are collections of tasks to deploy configurations and applications to multiple nodes over SSH in a controlled way. However, it doesn't stop there.

Ansible's modules, which are used to execute tasks, are all built to be ...