Ansible tutorial

git clone https://github.com/nelsg/ansible-tuto.git
cd ansible-tuto

Minimum Docker version: 1.10.1

• Build and launch environment with ./env_up.sh, any previous environment is destroyed :

cd ansible-tuto
./env_up.sh
# password is : 'ansible'

• Clean every ./env_clean.sh

Terminology:

• command or action: ansible module like just a shell command. Intro in step-02.
• task: it's combine an action (a module and its arguments) with a name and optionally some other keywords (like looping directives).
• playbook: an yaml file contains roles executed in sequence, and eventually individual tasks. Intro in step-04.
• role: an organisational unit grouping tasks together in order to install a piece of software. Intro in step-12.

Just in case you want to skip to a specific step, here is a topic table of contents.

• 00. Docker Setup
• 01. Basic inventory
• 02. First modules and facts
• 03. Groups and variables
• 04. Playbooks
• 05. Playbooks, pushing files on nodes
• 06. Playbooks and failures
• 07. Playbook conditionals
• 08. Git module
• 09. Extending to several hosts
• 10. Templates
• 11. Variables again
• 12. Migrating to roles
• 13. Using tags
• 99. The end