How to play with ansible playbook by Raj Gupta

[ansible@ip-172-31-36-60 ~]$ vi playbook1.yml
[ansible@ip-172-31-36-60 ~]$ cat playbook1.yml
-
  name: "this is our first playbook."
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    -
      name: "create a dummy file on websever1"
      command: touch /tmp/raj.txt
[ansible@ip-172-31-36-60 ~]$ ansible-playbook playbook1.yml -i inventory.txt


On client after running playbook

before running
[root@ip-172-31-90-234 tmp]# ls

after running
[root@ip-172-31-90-234 tmp]# ls
raj.txt
[root@ip-172-31-90-234 tmp]#

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create dirctry on client

Run the below command on master

[ansible@ip-172-31-86-165 ~]$ vi playbook2.yml
[ansible@ip-172-31-86-165 ~]$ cat playbook2.yml
-
  name: "this is our first playbook."
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    -
      name: "create a dummy directory on websever1"
      command: mkdir -p  /tmp/raj4
[ansible@ip-172-31-86-165 ~]$ ansible-playbook playbook2.yml -i inventory.txt

PLAY [this is our first playbook.] *************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [172.31.95.104]

TASK [create a dummy directory on websever1] ***************************************************************************************************************************
 [WARNING]: Consider using the file module with state=directory rather than running mkdir.  If you need to use command because file is insufficient you can add
warn=False to this command task or set command_warnings=False in ansible.cfg to get rid of this message.

changed: [172.31.95.104]

PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************************************************************************************
172.31.95.104              : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0

[ansible@ip-172-31-86-165 ~]$

Now run the below command on client

[root@ip-172-31-95-104 ~]# cd /tmp
[root@ip-172-31-95-104 tmp]# ls
raj4
[root@ip-172-31-95-104 tmp]#

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Creating dummy directory and file

[ansible@ip-172-31-86-165 ~]$ vi playbook3.yml

[ansible@ip-172-31-86-165 ~]$ cat playbook3.yml

-

  name: "this is our first playbook."

  hosts: all

  tasks:

    -

      name: "create a dummy directory on websever1"

      command: mkdir /tmp/raj8

    -

      name: "creating dummy file in webserver1"

      command: touch /tmp/raj8/raj8.txt

[ansible@ip-172-31-86-165 ~]$ ansible-playbook playbook3.yml -i inventory.txt

PLAY [this is our first playbook.] *************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *************************************************************************************************************************************************

ok: [172.31.95.104]

TASK [create a dummy directory on websever1] ***************************************************************************************************************************

 [WARNING]: Consider using the file module with state=directory rather than running mkdir.  If you need to use command because file is insufficient you can add

warn=False to this command task or set command_warnings=False in ansible.cfg to get rid of this message.

changed: [172.31.95.104]

TASK [creating dummy file in webserver1] *******************************************************************************************************************************

 [WARNING]: Consider using the file module with state=touch rather than running touch.  If you need to use command because file is insufficient you can add warn=False

to this command task or set command_warnings=False in ansible.cfg to get rid of this message.

changed: [172.31.95.104]

PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************************************************************************************

172.31.95.104              : ok=3    changed=2    unreachable=0    failed=0

[ansible@ip-172-31-86-165 ~]$

run the below command on client

[root@ip-172-31-95-104 tmp]# ls

raj4  raj8

[root@ip-172-31-95-104 tmp]# cd raj8

[root@ip-172-31-95-104 raj8]# ls

raj8.txt

[root@ip-172-31-95-104 raj8]#