6 | Ansible Hello World

Create and run a basic Playbook with Ansible
Install ansible
Create a hello world playbook
Run playbook on local system

Step 1 - Install ansible on your system and check check ansible is installed - ansible --version
Ansible is generally installed on Linux systems
AWS Linux VM -    • Create Free Linux on AWS and connect ...  
Vagrant Linux VM -    • Vagrant Beginner Tutorial  

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Steps to install Ansible on a Linux VM created with Vagrant

Step 1 - Install VirtualBox and Vagrant on your local machine.
Step 2 - Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you want to set up your Ansible project.
Step 3 - Create a new directory for your Ansible controller VM by running the command mkdir ansible-controller
Step 4 - Navigate to the directory and create a new file called Vagrantfile by running the command vagrant init centos/7
Step 5 - Edit the Vagrantfile and add the lines to the end of the file to provision Ansible on the VM:

Vagrantfile for creating VM for Ansible Controller

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.define "ansible-controller" do |controller|
controller.vm.hostname = "controller"
end
config.vm.box = "centos/7"
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: -SHELL
sudo yum install epel-release -y
sudo yum install ansible -y
SHELL
end


Step 6 - Save & check its a valid vagrantfile vagrant validate Then run command vagrant up to start the VM
Step 7 - Once the VM is up and running, connect to it using SSH by running the command vagrant ssh
Check ansible is installed - ansible --version
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Step 2 - Create a new directory mkdir ansible-project
Step 3 - Create a new file called playbook1.yml. This file will contain the tasks you want to perform on your machine
Step 4 - Add the following data in the playbook1.yml file

---
- name: Basic playbook
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Print a message
debug:
msg: "Hello, World!"

Step 5 - Run the playbook ansible-playbook playbook1.yml


Master Ansible basics with step-by-step Hello World playbook
Learn how to create your first Ansible playbook with this Hello World tutorial

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