cd ansible


cat inventory

"""
Explanation: Ansible
Ansible is a configuration management software.
Connects via ssh or docker to a list of inventory machines and executes a series of tasks eventually grouped in playbooks.
At first, create an inventory file with all your hosts.
End of explanation
"""


# Check connections versus the local host in the "course" group

!ansible -i inventory course  -msetup

# Pinging all hosts gives some errors too, due to missing hosts or no ssh-key exchange
!ansible -i inventory -m ping all

"""
Explanation: Now check if you can ping the local host.
End of explanation
"""


!cat python-course-test.yml

!ansible-playbook -i inventory python-course-test.yml 

"""
Explanation: Further on inventories
You can split your servers in many inventory files, like

staging

```
staging inventory file
run with
ansible -i staging ...
[ws]
 staging-ws-[0:3]
[jboss]
 staging-boss-[0:6]
```

production

```
production inventory file
run with
ansible -i production ...
[ws]
 ws-[0:3]
[jboss]
 boss-[0:6]
```
Playbooks
To run a group of tasks with ansible, just:

create a playbook.yml
run ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml

A playbook is a list of tasks in yml format, something like
```

playbook.yml



name: All public traffic is redirected via https
  uri:
    url: http://{{server_host}}/
    validate_certs: false
    follow_redirects: none
    status_code: 301


name: This webapp  is served
  uri:
    url: https://{{server_host}}/webapp-1
    validate_certs: false
    status_code: 200
    HEADER_testflag: test


name: The WS is serverd and requires authentication
  uri:
    url: https://{{server_host}}/rest/v1/method
    validate_certs: false
    status_code: 401


```
In this case, instead of making actual installation|setup tasks, we just created a testsuite validating our deployment. Now we must write another playbook which takes care of deployng the actual machine.
Testing our course environment
We can write a playbook to test our course environment.
End of explanation
"""


!cat site.yml

!ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml --diff --limit=course  # in this case the --limit does not change anything ;)

!cat mytemplate.j2



"""
Explanation: As you can see something is missing: this playbook is not going to modify our machine but only test that everything is in place. 
See ansible-playbook --check and --diff for further infos.
We can run a setup playbook, conventionally named site.yml.
End of explanation
"""


