Chapter 3: Implementing an Ansible Playbook

Build an inventory, configure Ansible for your project, and write and run playbooks with one or more plays.

What you will learn

• Write static INI inventories with groups, nested groups and host ranges, and verify them.
• Explain how Ansible and ansible-navigator find their configuration files, and set connection and privilege escalation options.
• Write a playbook in correct YAML, then syntax-check, dry-run and run it with ansible-navigator.
• Write playbooks with multiple plays, per-play privilege escalation, and modules found through the documentation.

Sections

1. Building an Ansible inventory
2. Exercise: Building an inventory
3. Managing Ansible configuration files
4. Exercise: Configuration files
5. Writing and running playbooks
6. Exercise: Writing and running playbooks
7. Implementing multiple plays
8. Finding modules and YAML syntax
9. Exercise: Implementing multiple plays
10. Exercise: Implementing a playbook
11. Ansible playbooks quiz
12. Ansible playbooks cheat sheet