Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

Creating a playbook to perform system configuration tasks

Changing a system's configuration with Ansible isn't much more difficult than provisioning a new system.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the following facts for the new host:

• ntp_servers
• dns_servers
• dns_search

We'll also need to have a couple of templates to provision the following files:

• /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
• /etc/ntp.conf
• /etc/ntp/step-tickers
• /etc/resolv.conf

How to do it…

Now, we'll create the playbook to configure the system. Perform the following steps:

1. Create a ~/playbooks/config.yml playbook with the following content:

   - name: Configure system hosts: all handlers: - include: networking.handlers.yml - include: ntp-client.handlers.yml tasks: - include: networking.tasks.yml - include: ...