Ansible with VMware – host variables and handler – Part 19
Kad Host variables can be used to manage host at a another level by defining the variable or a name to define what you want it to do. Here I will…
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Ansible with VMware – Using Roles to organize your playbooks runs and tasks– Part 18
Roles is about organizing your playbooks into a more organized look and feel. Instead of having one playbook for everything you can break it up.The groups in my inventory.ini file…
Ansible with VMware – initial config for a server – Part 17
As a example we would want to do the following for our initial builds on our servers or desktop fleet but this list can be modified to your business needs.…
Ansible with VMware – Create new user, make user sudoer, add ansible public key to user – Part 16
The purpose of this blog is to add a new user across all the manage nodes, make the user sudo, add ansible public key to the user so it can…
Ansible with VMware – change a line in a file– Part 15
We have a file on a managed node and we want to change the line within the file. For example on the remote box this file structure exists. So we…
Ansible with VMware – Manage Services – Part 14
Working with services you can start, restart, stop and enable services from ansible. Below example Here I will install apache2 and then stop the apache2 service but enable the service.…
Ansible with VMware – Install unzip and using unarchive – Part 13
Here we will install unzip, get a zip file from a URL and unzip and install at the destination location. Below is the example code screenshots below before and after…
Ansible with VMware – Copying file example – Part 12
I am going to replace a file on the destination end. I will replace the index.html on a Ubuntu apache2 which is the front end webpage with my own one.I…
Ansible with VMware – tag examples – Part 11
Tags are essentially labels or keywords that can help identify and organize the running of your playbooks. So if your are going to install a program in a section in…
Ansible with VMware – Install multiple apps, using variables and targeting groups examples – Part 10
So installing multiple apps in your playbook helps consolidate your playbook, makes it run faster and it is easier to read. Below is an example. The below variable example is…