Using the Simulation Program, perform the following tasks:
1. Use an ansible ad-hoc command, check the connectivity of your servers.
2. Use an ad-hoc ansible command, find the free space of your servers.
3. Use an ad-hoc ansible command, find out the memory usage of your servers.
4. Do an ls -l on the targets /var/log/messages file.
5. Tail the contents of the targets /var/log/messages file.

1. ansible all -m ping
2. ansible all -a "/bin/df -h"
3. ansible all -a "/usr/bin/free"
4. ansible all -a "ls -l /var/log/messages"
5. ansible local -b -a "tail /var/log/messages"

Create an empty encrypted file called myvault.yml in /home/sandy/ansible and set the password to notsafepw. Rekey the password to iwejfj2221.

ansible-vault create myvault.yml
Create new password: notsafepw Confirm password: notsafepw ansible-vault rekey myvault.yml
Current password: notsafepw New password: iwejfj2221 Confirm password: iwejfj2221

Create a playbook called issue.yml in /home/sandy/ansible which changes the file /etc/issue on all managed nodes: If host is a member of (lev then write "Development" If host is a member of test then write "Test" If host is a member of prod then write "Production"

Solution as:

Create a role called sample-apache in /home/sandy/ansible/roles that enables and starts httpd, enables and starts the firewall and allows the webserver service. Create a template called index.html.j2 which creates and serves a message from /var/www/html/index.html Whenever the content of the file changes, restart the webserver service.
Welcome to [FQDN] on [IP]
Replace the FQDN with the fully qualified domain name and IP with the ip address of the node using ansible facts. Lastly, create a playbook in /home/sandy/ansible/ called apache.yml and use the role to serve the index file on webserver hosts.

/home/sandy/ansible/apache.yml

/home/sandy/ansible/roles/sample-apache/tasks/main.yml

/home/sandy/ansible/roles/sample-apache/templates/index.html.j2

In /home/sandy/ansible/roles/sample-apache/handlers/main.yml

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control.realmX.example.com _ workstation.lab.example.com
node1.realmX.example.com _ servera.lab.example.com
node2.realmX.example.com _ serverb.lab.example.com
node3.realmX.example.com _ serverc.lab.example.com
node4.realmX.example.com _ serverd.lab.example.com
node5.realmX.example.com
- username:root, password:redhat
- username:admin, password:redhat
note1. don't change 'root' or 'admin' password.
note2. no need to create ssh-keygen for access, its pre-defined
note3. SELinux is in enforcing mode and firewalld is disabled/stop on whole managed hosts.
Rekey an existing Ansible vault as follows:
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* Download Ansible vault from http:// classroom.example.com /secret.yml to /home/
admin/ansible/
* The current vault password is curabete
* The new vault password is newvare
* The vault remains in an encrypted state with the new password

Solution as:
# pwd
/home/admin/ansible/
# wget http://classroom.example.com/secret.yml
# chmod 0600 newpassword.txt
# ansible-vault rekey vault.yml --new-vault-password-file=newpassword.txt