Ansible Quickstart

• Working With Playbooks - Best Practices

Create and activate a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate.fish

Install Ansible:

pip install ansible

Create an inventory.yml file listing your hosts e.g:

[servers]
122.122.222.49 ansible_user=root

Create a Playbook (in YAML format) e.g:

# example_1.yml
---

- name: Network Getting Started First Playbook
  hosts: all
  tasks:

    - name: Hello - I will Execute the command in remote shell; stdout goes to the specified file on the remote
      ansible.builtin.shell: echo 'Hello Patrick'

    - name: Touch a file, using symbolic modes to set the permissions (equivalent to 0644)
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: /root/patrick.json
        state: touch
        mode: u=rw,g=r,o=r

    - name: Create a directory if it does not exist
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: /root/patrick
        state: directory
        mode: '0755'

Tip

The ansible.builtin.file module is one of many modules. For documentation, see Manage files and file properties

To execute this Playbook:

ansible-playbook example_1.yml -i inventory.yml