Ansible

Automating Server Setup with Ansible: A the cloud provider Workshop Kit — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Automating Server Setup with Ansible: A cloud provider Workshop Kit

This tutorial, designed to accompany the Slides and speaker notes for the Automating Server Setup with Ansible Workshop Kit, will show you how to set up an inventory file and execute a set of provisioning scripts to fully automate the steps necessary to set up a remote LEMP server on Ubuntu 18.04 and to deploy a demo Laravel application to this system.

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How To Access System Information (Facts) in Ansible Playbooks — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Access System Information (Facts) in Ansible Playbooks

By default, before starting to execute the set of tasks defined in a playbook, Ansible will take a few moments to gather information about the systems that are being provisioned. These are known as *facts*. Ansible facts contain information such as network interfaces and addresses, the operating system running on remote nodes, available memory, among other things. Learn how to access this information from your playbooks.

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How To Execute Ansible Playbooks to Automate Server Setup — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Execute Ansible Playbooks to Automate Server Setup

Ansible is a modern configuration management tool that facilitates the task of setting up and maintaining remote servers. With a minimalist design intended to get users up and running quickly, it allows you to control one to hundreds of systems from a central location. This short guide demonstrates how to execute Ansible playbooks to automate server setup, using an example playbook that sets up an Nginx server with a single static HTML page.

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Understanding Privilege Escalation in Ansible Playbooks — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Understanding Privilege Escalation in Ansible Playbooks

It is important to understand how privilege escalation works in Ansible, so that you’re able to execute your tasks with appropriate permissions. By default, tasks will run as the connecting user – this might be either root or any regular user with SSH access to the remote nodes in an inventory file. In this guide, learn more about privilege escalation in Ansible playbooks.

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How to Use Ansible to Install and Set Up Apache on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible to Install and Set Up Apache on Ubuntu 18.04

Ansible offers a simple architecture that doesn’t require special software to be installed on nodes. It also provides a robust set of features and built-in modules which facilitate writing automation scripts. This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in our guide on How To Install the Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 18.04.

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