demo2

Cygate Techdays 2019

Ansible automation demo for Cygate Techdays 2019 by Christofer Tibbelin

Ansible Demo 2 🔍

Run simple modules directly from command prompt without any playbook.

Create a simple inventory file with two hosts. call it whatever you want.

default name is hosts in /etc/ansible/
These are DNS names in my case. Can be IP, SSH or Ansible names.

[servers]
server1
server2.mylocal

run the test module ping against all hosts in this inventory.

ansible -i inventory.ini -m ping all

run the test module ping against only servers group in this inventory.

ansible -i inventory.ini -m ping servers

View all information Ansible have gathered about these host.

This is called 'facts' in Ansible

ansible -i inventory.ini -m setup all

View only network facts for hosts via subset

ansible -i inventory.ini -m setup -a 'gather_subset=!all,!any,network' servers

View only default network facts for hosts via filter

ansible -i inventory.ini -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_default_ipv4' servers

Demo 3 📖

Building our first playbook instead of console commands