EX294 Questions and Answers

Install and configure Ansible on the control-node control.realmX.example.com as

follows:

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--> Install the required packages

--> Create a static inventory file called /home/admin/ansible/inventory as follows:

node1.realmX.example.com is a member of the dev host group

node2.realmX.example.com is a member of the test host group

node3.realmX.example.com & node4.realmX.example.com are members of the prod

host group

node5.realmX.example.com is a member of the balancers host group.

prod group is a member of the webservers host group

--> Create a configuration file called ansible.cfg as follows:

--> The host inventory file /home/admin/ansible/inventory is defined

--> The location of roles used in playbooks is defined as /home/admin/ansible/ roles

Create a playbook called timesvnc.yml in /home/sandy/ansible using rhel system role timesync. Set the time to use currently configured nip with the server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org. Enable burst. Do this on all hosts.

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"

Create a playbook that changes the default target on all nodes to multi-user tarqet. Do this in playbook file called target.yml in /home/sandy/ansible

Create a file called packages.yml in /home/sandy/ansible to install some packages for the following hosts. On dev, prod and webservers install packages httpd, mod_ssl, and mariadb. On dev only install the development tools package. Also, on dev host update all the packages to the latest.