Jasim Muhammed

ME?• Senior Software Engineer @

Nuventure, working for Rightside.

• Hacking flask, SQLAlchemy, grunt, jQuery, Jenkins and Ansible.

• Do lot of other things with team :)

WHAT IS ANSIBLE?

• Meaning: fictitious machine capable of faster communication than light

WHAT IS ANSIBLE?

• Ansible is a configuration management and provisioning tool, similar to Chef, Puppet or Salt

• Automates the job of ‘manual configuration’ and setting up of servers, machines

ADVANTAGES OF ANSIBLE• Ansible is setup on one computer or

VM, and could control other VMS via SSH

• No client installation is needed on remote machines

• Simple to code, using YAML files and INI

• Jinja2 variables support

VARIABLES, INVENTORY, ROLES PLAYBOOKS,

VARIABLES

• YAML files

• Defining a set of variables for set of host groups/hosts

INVENTORY

• INI Files

• Helps to group hosts

ROLES

• YAML files

• A series of tasks to execute

• Configuration files are generated from templates

• Variables are filled in tasks and templates at runtime

PLAYBOOKS

• YAML files

• A series of roles executed together on a group of machines

Running ping on all servers

Typical Ansible folder structure

hello@jasimmk.ninjahttp://jasimmk.ninja

THANKS