Lab 2 - Solution
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Mandatory
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Create the Ansible Configuration
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* Connect to your ``srv.<firstname>.lab`` as ``ansible`` user
* Switch into your git repo ``/home/ansible/training``
* Create a ``ansible.cfg`` file and configure

    * inventory path to ``hosts``
    * enable ``become``


.. code-block:: bash

    vi ansible.cfg

    # file: ansible.cfg
    [defaults]
    inventory = hosts

    [privilege_escalation]
    become = True


Create a static inventory
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* Create a ``hosts`` file
* add all your servers to the inventory file

    * web1.<firstname>.lab
    * web2.<firstname>.lab
    * db.<firstname>.lab


.. code-block:: bash

    vi hosts

    # file: hosts
    web1.firstname.lab
    web2.firstname.lab
    db.firstname.lab


Run some Ansible commands
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* Run ``uname -a`` on all servers
* Run ``whoami`` on all servers

.. code-block:: bash

    ansible -a "uname -a" all

    ansible -a "whoami" all


Commit your changes
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* add all files to your git repo and commit it

.. code-block:: bash

    git add hosts
    git add ansible.cfg
    git commit -m 'added inventory and ansible config'


Optional
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Run whoami as ansible user
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.. code-block:: bash

    ansible -a "whoami" --become-user=ansible all


Try out ansible-doc
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* print out all available modules

.. code-block:: bash

    ansible-doc -l

* have a look at the ``ping`` module

.. code-block:: bash

    ansible-doc ping

Checkout the available modules
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* http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_all_modules.html