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:
- 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: ...
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