ARTH — Task 11.3

11.3 Restarting HTTPD Service is not idempotence in nature and also consume more resources suggest a way to rectify this challenge in Ansible playbook

Step 1

CONFIGURING ANSIBLE IN CONTROL NODE

Download Ansible

cmd: pip3 install ansible

Step 2 Create Inventory

Create one inventory file and add ip of managed nodes

for that we need to create a file:-

write the file with respective ip and username and password

Step 3 Create ansible conf file and append the inventory file

• create one dir:- mkdir /etc/ansible
• create a conf file:- vim /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

• add inventory to conf file

• To check :- ansible all — list-hosts

Step 4 To connect host:- dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

then install sshpass:- yum install sshpass

To check: ansible all -m ping

Initial Setup is completed

Now we have to write the playbook

• create a directory: cmd: mkdir /<name> [eg., mkdir /ws]
• cd /ws ->create a file : vim <file name>.yml [eg., vim web.yml]

write the play book

write a file in lw.conf:

Now, the playbook

ansible-playbook <file name>

try again

Task succesfully completed