What is ansible ?

It is a configuration management tool , open source .

Uses YAML scripting.

Works on push management.

Required architecture :

We need to create 1 master node and 3 server nodes

Create an instance,

Instance name: ansible_master

Select Ubuntu server 22.04 as the Amazon machine image.

Allocate port — 22

Launch the instance,

we have launched 1 master node, we need 3 server nodes

select the instance > actions > image and templates > launch more like these

Launch 3 instances with the same configurations,

And launch instance

Change the name of the 3 — instances,

Connect to the ansible master instance,

Click on the instance > connect

Use command,

sudo apt update

Now install ansible,

After configuring the master, we need to ssh with the nodes (node 1, node 2, node 3)

Now let's connect with ansible_server_2,

Go to the master server,

use command

ssh-keygen to generate id_rsa.pub

Copy the key from id_rsa.pub

Now go to the ansible server2 instance,

Go to .ssh > authorized_keys

And paste the public key here,

Save and exit.

Do the same for ansible_server_1 and ansible_server_3,

Copy and paste the key from id_rsa.pub(ansible_master) — authorized_keys (ansible_server_1)

Copy and paste the key from id_rsa.pub(ansible_master) — authorized_keys (ansible_server_3)

Now go to the ansible_master

Use the command ,

ssh ubuntu@52.221.219.146 (public IP address of ansible_server_2)

Now we have connected from one server to another server , this is called secured shell (SSH).

Now we have to create an inventory file ,

Go to Ansible and create hosts,

vim hosts

Now add the servers inside the inventory,

Now the servers are ready in the inventory.

To install Python by default in all the servers,

Save and exit.

Now let us check if the inventory/host file is correct,

ansible-inventory — list -y

We get this error because our host file is in a different directory ,

/home/ubuntu/ansible

Use the command,

ansible-inventory — list -y -i /home/ubuntu/ansible/hosts

we have got all the details of the server.

Now let's ping all the servers with a module.

What is module?

module is a command or set of commands to be executed on the client side .

ansible all -m ping -i /home/ubuntu/ansible/hosts

Now to check memory usage,

ansible all -a “free -h” -i /home/ubuntu/ansible/hosts

To check server uptime,

ansible servers -a “uptime” -i /home/ubuntu/ansible/hosts

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