in this article we will learn how to install and configure ansible in ubuntu 16.02, Ansible is a agent less configuration management tool which help us to manage large number of client machines easily, ansible running and communicates over ssh protocol, So it's doesn't need to install any software on client side.
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Scenario :
master server : 10.80.253.11 / master
client server 1 : 10.80.253.12 / slave1
client server 2 : 10.80.253.13 / slave2
you can enter machine ip and name in /etc/host file.
Installing the Ansible on Ubuntu 16.04 (we will install ansible on Master server only).
To install ansible you must have to configure PPA (Personal Package Archive) on your system for latest version of ansible.
$sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.
http://ansible.com/
More info: https://launchpad.net/~ansible/+archive/ubuntu/ansible
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpb9i7viln/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpb9i7viln/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 7BB9C367 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpb9i7viln/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 7BB9C367: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ansible, Inc." imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
$sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu xenial InRelease [18.0 kB]
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [536 B]
Get:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Get:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [767 kB]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [536 B]
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [344 B]
Finaly install ansible using below command.
$sudo apt-get install ansible
Finding Ansible version
# ansible --version
ansible 2.5.1
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
python version = 2.7.12 (default, Nov 20 2017, 18:23:56) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]
ansible requires information of remote machine name and ip addresses, this all information are stored in host file. default path of file is /etc/ansible/hosts. we can edit it or create new one also. append ip or name of server in host file.
$vim /etc/ansible/hosts
[servers]
slave1
slave2
and save the file.
we need to setup ssh keys and copy in all client machine. so they can communicates each other without asking password.
Click here To configure password less login between server and client using ssh.
Executing the Simple Ansible Commands :
First we will check ping command, and run below command which ping client machine which we have defined in /etc/ansible/host file.
root@master:~# ansible -m ping servers
slave2 | SUCCESS => {
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
slave1 | SUCCESS => {
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
Success means all client machines can communicates with server.
We can use " shell " module to run a terminal command from the Anisble remote hosts and retrive the results.
Let's find out memory usage of all client machine. run below command to check memory usage of all ansible clinet machine.
$ ansible -m shell -a "free -m" servers
slave1 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 990 155 170 14 663 648
Swap: 1905 0 1905
slave2 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 990 159 170 14 660 646
Swap: 1905 0 1905
You can see the output of memory utilization.
To check disk usage of all out ansible client with below command.
$ ansible -m shell -a "df -h" servers
slave1 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 474M 0 474M 0% /dev
tmpfs 100M 11M 89M 11% /run
/dev/sda1 5.4G 3.9G 1.2G 77% /
tmpfs 496M 188K 495M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 496M 0 496M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda5 268M 62M 189M 25% /boot
tmpfs 100M 32K 99M 1% /run/user/108
tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user/0
slave2 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 474M 0 474M 0% /dev
tmpfs 100M 11M 89M 11% /run
/dev/sda1 5.4G 3.9G 1.3G 77% /
tmpfs 496M 188K 495M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 496M 0 496M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda5 268M 62M 189M 25% /boot
tmpfs 100M 32K 99M 1% /run/user/108
tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user/0
You can check the any service status or restart any service using below command on all ansible client.
$ansible -m shell -a "service sshd restart " servers
slave2 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
slave1 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
To check uptime of all ansible clients :
$ ansible -m shell -a "uptime" servers
slave1 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
13:19:49 up 10 days, 23:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
slave2 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
13:19:46 up 10 days, 23:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
To check process of any ansible client :
$ ansible -m shell -a "ps -aux | grep ssh " slave1
slave1 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
root 10307 0.0 0.5 65512 5388 ? Ss 13:11 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
root 10414 0.2 0.7 95196 7280 ? Ss 13:21 0:00 sshd: root@pts/8
root 10519 0.0 0.0 4508 716 pts/8 S+ 13:21 0:00 /bin/sh -c ps -aux | grep ssh
root 10521 0.0 0.0 21292 920 pts/8 S+ 13:21 0:00 grep ssh
here we have checked process of ssh of slave1 server.
To check any files from remote ansible client :
$ansible -m shell -a "cat /etc/timezone" slave1
slave1 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
Asia/Kolkata
To check CPU info of client machine.
$ansible -m shell -a "cat /proc/cpuinfo" slave1
slave1 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 63
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 @ 1.90GHz
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1899.999
cache size : 15360 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 15
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm fsgsbase avx2 invpcid
bugs :
bogomips : 3799.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
So in this article we have learn how to configured ansible server and clients. So in next article i will explain you to how to create and run ansible playbooks.
Thanks,
Vishal
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