Introduction

This tutorial covers How to Automate SLES 16 with Ansible on SLES 16. SLES 16 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management.

Step 1 — Install Ansible

zypper install -y ansible

Step 2 — Configure Inventory

echo "[servers]
192.168.1.10 ansible_user=root" > /etc/ansible/hosts

Step 3 — Test Connectivity

ansible all -m ping

AppArmor Considerations

Note: SLES 16 uses AppArmor for mandatory access control. Check AppArmor status with aa-status and enforce profiles with aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/<profile>.

Conclusion

You have successfully completed: How to Automate SLES 16 with Ansible. For more SLES 16 tutorials, see our full SLES 16 series.