Getting Started with Ansible 11 – Managing Files

Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties.

default_site.html

Note: Store this file in a directory named “files” in the root of the repository.

 <html>
     <title>Web-site test</title>
     <body>
        Ansible is awesome!
    </body>
 </html>

site.yml (updated to copy default_site.html)

 ---
 
 - hosts: all
   become: true
   pre_tasks:
 
   - name: install updates (CentOS)
     tags: always
     dnf:
       update_only: yes
       update_cache: yes
     when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
 
   - name: install updates (Ubuntu)
     tags: always
     apt:
       upgrade: dist
       update_cache: yes
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
 
 - hosts: web_servers
   become: true
   tasks:
 
   - name: install httpd package (CentOS)
     tags: apache,centos,httpd
     dnf:
       name:
         - httpd
         - php
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
 
   - name: install apache2 package (Ubuntu)
     tags: apache,apache2,ubuntu
     apt:
       name:
         - apache2
         - libapache2-mod-php
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
   - name: copy html file for site
     tags: apache,apache,apache2,httpd
     copy:
       src: default_site.html
       dest: /var/www/html/index.html
       owner: root
       group: root
       mode: 0644
 
 - hosts: db_servers
   become: true
   tasks:
 
   - name: install mariadb server package (CentOS)
     tags: centos,db,mariadb
     dnf:
       name: mariadb
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
 
   - name: install mariadb server
     tags: db,mariadb,ubuntu
     apt:
       name: mariadb-server
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
 - hosts: file_servers
   tags: samba
   become: true
   tasks:
 
   - name: install samba package
     tags: samba
     package:
       name: samba
       state: latest

Run the playbook

 ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass file_management.yml

file_management.yml (updated)

 ---
 
 - hosts: all
   become: true
   pre_tasks:
 
   - name: install updates (CentOS)
     tags: always
     dnf:
       update_only: yes
       update_cache: yes
     when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
 
   - name: install updates (Ubuntu)
     tags: always
     apt:
       upgrade: dist
       update_cache: yes
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
 - hosts: workstations
   become: true
   tasks:

   - name: install unzip
     package:
       name: unzip
 
   - name: install terraform
     unarchive:
      src: https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.28/terraform_0.12.28_linux_amd64.zip
       dest: /usr/local/bin
       remote_src: yes
       mode: 0755
       owner: root
       group: root
 
 - hosts: web_servers
   become: true
   tasks:
 
   - name: install httpd package (CentOS)
     tags: apache,centos,httpd
     dnf:
       name:
         - httpd
         - php
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
 
   - name: install apache2 package (Ubuntu)
     tags: apache,apache2,ubuntu
     apt:
       name:
         - apache2
         - libapache2-mod-php
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
   - name: copy html file for site
     tags: apache,apache,apache2,httpd
     copy:
       src: default_site.html
       dest: /var/www/html/index.html
       owner: root
       group: root
       mode: 0644
 
 - hosts: db_servers
   become: true
   tasks:
 
   - name: install mariadb server package (CentOS)
     tags: centos,db,mariadb
     dnf:
       name: mariadb
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
 
   - name: install mariadb server
     tags: db,mariadb,ubuntu
     apt:
       name: mariadb-server
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
 - hosts: file_servers
   tags: samba
   become: true
   tasks:
 
   - name: install samba package
     tags: samba
     package:
       name: samba
       state: latest

Run the updated playbook

 ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass file_management.yml

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