Ansible Tutorial - How To Define a Ansible Register Variable in Playbook

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Ansible registers module used to capture / store the output of a task/command.it is similar to variable declarations we can define the value in different scenarios like a conditional, logging etc.

Ansible Playbook for Get Hosts Information | Ansible Playbook Tutorial

Ansible Playbook -  Get System Information

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In this absible playbook example we will write a ansible tasks using a gathering facts of ansible hosts. we use ansible facts as variable and echo there value.
out ansible playbook will display hostname, date and timezone, network information, os information, kernel version and Hardware information of hosts.

Ansible Tutorial - How to Use Ansible User and Group Module | Ansible Ad-Hoc Command

Ansible Tutorial : Ansible modules user & group

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In this topic we will learn about how to manage user and group using ansible modules, we use following ansible module for it.

• Ansible User Module
• Ansible Group Module

User Management

User Module : It is used for user management, create user, delete user and more

To help ansible user module  

ansible-doc user

Ansible Tutorial - ansible-doc

To Check password algorithm of Hosts, its must require to generate password and set password of user because plan text password does not support.

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m shell -a "authconfig --test" | grep password

Generate password :

python -c "from passlib.hash import sha512_crypt; import getpass; print sha512_crypt.using(rounds=5000).hash(getpass.getpass())"

Password: **********

$6$O.RWXg/0E73uMPKe$DF.CGkdD0F/z6Q9Pww31mGxKvgRlhIN3bLXh2U/TKWTbSdax47xxrXe5nehSkxS.rrLdKeJr8rbC5ZwhMJRuC0

Create a User : Using hash password string in ansible

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a 'name=lokcar password=$6$O.RWXg/0E73uMPKe$DF.CGkdD0F/z6Q9Pww31mGxKvgRlhIN3bLXh2U/TKWTbSdax47xxrXe5nehSkxS.rrLdKeJr8rbC5ZwhMJRuC0 state=present'

To Create a user with define shell and home directory

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a 'name=lokesh1 password=$6$n2em3sW/g7aKU6Ek$LgIJnIfmQkCqry3gOHpe8zNodK6yQ01SL2737eYtxjuJtbP0tRo5HRaOlf6.OzjpThGIyHf0kj4dv8f/yA9CN1 state=present home=/tmp/ shell=/usr/bin/lshell'

Ansible Tutorial - Create User with define Shell and Directory 

Change user primary group

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a "name=lokesh group=tesy"

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a "name=lokesh groups=lokesh"

Add user in multiple groups

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a "name=lokesh append=yes groups=lokesh,apache,ftp"

  

Deleting a user

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m user -a "name=ans2 state=absent"

Ansible Tutorial - Delete Users

Ansible Group Management :

To Create Group

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m group -a "name=ansible1"

Ansible Tutorial - Create Groups

   

Delete group

ansible 172.17.20.98 -m group -a "name=ansible1 state=absent"

Thanks

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Ansible Tutorial - Ansible Modules Ping Setup Command Shell Copy Find

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Ansible Version 2.7.5

Useful Ansible Command :

ansible  - Define and run a single task against a set of hosts

ansible-config - View, edit, and manage ansible configuration

ansible-doc  - plugin documentation tool

ansible-galaxy - Perform various Role related operations

ansible-playbook - Runs ansible playbooks on targeted hosts

ansible-vault - encryption/decryption utility for ansible data files

ansible-doc Command

It is a plugin documentation tool, we can take help of any module

Syntax :

ansible-doc [-l|-F|-s] [options] [-t <plugin type> ] [plugin]

To display All modules :

ansible-doc  -l

ansible-doc command

To display help / option particular module/plugin

ansible-doc  hostname

To display option of yum modules

ansible-doc yum

ansible-doc command yum documentation 

Ansible Command

Define and run a single task against a set of hosts/groups.

Syntax :

ansible <host-pattern> [options]

For more help or display all options

ansible -h

Modules:

1. ping
2. hostname
3. setup
4. command
5. shell
6. copy
7. get_url
8. find

Use Ping module

ansible  all -m ping

Explanation:

ansible  = Command

all          = all hosts of inventory, we can define single hosts, groups or IP address

-m ping = module name

ansible ping modules

Ansible Hostname Module :

To Change Hostname

ansible 127.0.0.1  -m hostname -a “name=linuxserver”

Explanation:

ansible  = Command

127.0.0.1          = hosts of inventory, we can define all hosts, using “all”  , “groups name”

-m hostname = module name

-a = use for argument

name=linuxserver  = we changed name from linuxtopic to linuxserver

Ansible Setup Module

To display / gather all information of hosts

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m setup | more

ansible setup module

Filter or Grep information

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m setup | grep swap

Use filter in ansible command output

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m setup | grep -e swap -e memorysize -e process

ansible command filter

Use ansible command module

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m command -a  “ip a” ansible  127.0.0.1  -m command -a  “ip a” | grep eth0

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m command -a  “cat /etc/hostname”

Use ansible shell module

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m shell -a  “ip a” ansible  127.0.0.1  -m shell -a  “cat /etc/hostname”

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m shell -a  “touch /etc/hostname111”

Ansible copy module

To Copy file from one location to another location

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m copy -a  “src=/tmp/hostname111 dest=/tmp/hostname2222 ”

To copy file with change owner, group and permission

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m copy -a  “src=/tmp/hostname111 dest=/tmp/hostname2222 owner=lokesh group=lokesh mode=777 ”

Verify :

ll  /tmp/hostname*

Ansible Find module

We can  find any file using find module:

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m find -a “paths=/tmp/”  | grep hostname

Ansible get_url module

We can download any file using get_url module:

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m get_url “url=https://images.indianexpress.com/2018/12/FEATURE-2.jpg dest=/tmp/happynewyear2019.jpg”

Ansible script module

We can run any script using script module using following example

ansible  127.0.0.1  -m script -a "/tmp/script.sh"

Script.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo `hostname`

echo `date -I`

Thanks

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