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Ansible Repo Template
A short guide to organize our Ansible Repository, to easily merge all in one.
Ansible Command
For staging environment:
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ansible-playbook -i inventory/production playbook/site.yml
For test environment:
ansible-playbook -i inventory/test playbook/site.yml
repository organization
Inventory/ # here we store our inventory file production # inventory file for production servers staging staging # inventory file for staging environment test # inventory file for test environment
group_vars/ production/ generic # here we assign variables to generic groups comanage # here we assign variables to comanage groups teip # here we assign variables to TEIP groups loadbalancer # here we assign variables to loadbalance groups vault # Vault file, to store password and secret informations staging/ ... test/ ...
host_vars/ hostname1 # if systems need specific variables, put them here hostname2 # ""
playbook/ site.yml # master playbook webservers.yml # playbook for webserver tier dbservers.yml # playbook for dbserver tier
roles/ generic/ # this hierarchy represents a "role" tasks/ # main.yml # <-- tasks file can include smaller files if warranted handlers/ # main.yml # <-- handlers file templates/ # <-- files for use with the template resource ntp.conf.j2 # <------- templates end in .j2 files/ # bar.txt # <-- files for use with the copy resource foo.sh # <-- script files for use with the script resource vars/ # main.yml # <-- variables associated with this role defaults/ # main.yml # <-- default lower priority variables for this role meta/ # main.yml # <-- role dependencies |
repository organization
To separate environment vars, we can use a variable inside inventory file to switch in each repository:
Inventory/staging
TEIP 192.168.1.[2:3] ... ... ... [all:vars] environment=staging |
playbook
- name: a generic playbook vars_files: - ../group_vars/{{environment}}/generic.yml become: yes remote_user: root roles: - roles/generic
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Ansible take "environment" variable directly from inventory file. For each environment, there is a "environment" varible with its value ("production", "staging" or "test")
work in progress..