Create an Ansible vault to store user passwords as follows:
* The name of the vault is valut.yml
* The vault contains two variables as follows:
- dev_pass with value wakennym
- mgr_pass with value rocky
* The password to encrypt and decrypt the vault is atenorth
* The password is stored in the file /home/admin/ansible/password.txt
Create a playbook called packages.yml that:
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--> Installs the php and mariadb packages on hosts in the dev, test, and prod host
groups.
--> Installs the Development Tools package group on hosts in the dev host group.
--> Updates all packages to the latest version on hosts in the dev host group.
Create a playbook called timesvnc.yml in /home/sandy/ansible using rhel system role timesync. Set the time to use currently configured nip with the server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org. Enable burst. Do this on all hosts.
Create a playbook called web.yml as follows:
* The playbook runs on managed nodes in the "dev" host group
* Create the directory /webdev with the following requirements:
--> membership in the apache group
--> regular permissions: owner=r+w+execute, group=r+w+execute, other=r+execute
s.p=set group-id
* Symbolically link /var/www/html/webdev to /webdev
* Create the file /webdev/index.html with a single line of text that reads:
''Development''
--> it should be available on http://servera.lab.example.com/webdev/index.html
Install and configure ansible
User bob has been created on your control node. Give him the appropriate permissions on the control node. Install the necessary packages to run ansible on the control node.
Create a configuration file /home/bob/ansible/ansible.cfg to meet the following requirements:
* The roles path should include /home/bob/ansible/roles, as well as any other path that may be required for the course of the sample exam.
* The inventory file path is /home/bob/ansible/inventory.
* Ansible should be able to manage 10 hosts at a single time.
* Ansible should connect to all managed nodes using the bob user.
Create an inventory file for the following five nodes:
Configure these nodes to be in an inventory file where node1 is a member of group dev. nodc2 is a member of group test, nodc3 is a member of group proxy, nodc4 and node 5 are members of group prod. Also, prod is a member of group webservers.
