EX294 Sample Questions Answers

Modify file content.

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Create a playbook called /home/admin/ansible/modify.yml as follows:

* The playbook runs on all inventory hosts

* The playbook replaces the contents of /etc/issue with a single line of text as

follows:

--> On hosts in the dev host group, the line reads: “Development”

--> On hosts in the test host group, the line reads: “Test”

--> On hosts in the prod host group, the line reads: “Production”

Create a file called requirements.yml in /home/sandy/ansible/roles to install two roles. The source for the first role is geerlingguy.haproxy and geerlingguy.php. Name the first haproxy-role and the second php-role. The roles should be installed in /home/sandy/ansible/roles.

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.

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.

Install and configure ansible

User bob has been created on your control node. Give him the appropriate permissions on the control node. Install the necessary packages to run ansible on the control node.

Create a configuration file /home/bob/ansible/ansible.cfg to meet the following requirements:

• The roles path should include /home/bob/ansible/roles, as well as any other path that may be required for the course of the sample exam.

• The inventory file path is /home/bob/ansible/inventory.

• Ansible should be able to manage 10 hosts at a single time.

• Ansible should connect to all managed nodes using the bob user.

Create an inventory file for the following five nodes:

nodel.example.com

node2.example.com

node3.example.com

node4.example.com

node5.example.com

Configure these nodes to be in an inventory file where node1 is a member of group dev. nodc2 is a member of group test, nodc3 is a member of group proxy, nodc4 and node 5 are members of group prod. Also, prod is a member of group webservers.

Create a playbook /home/bob /ansible/motd.yml that runs on all inventory hosts and docs the following: The playbook should replaee any existing content of/etc/motd in the following text. Use ansible facts to display the FQDN of each host

On hosts in the dev host group the line should be "Welcome to Dev Server FQDN".

On hosts in the webserver host group the line should be "Welcome to Apache Server FQDN".

On hosts in the database host group the line should be "Welcome to MySQL Server FQDN".

Create a playbook called packages.yml that:

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--> Installs the php and mariadb packages on hosts in the dev, test, and prod host

groups.

--> Installs the Development Tools package group on hosts in the dev host group.

--> Updates all packages to the latest version on hosts in the dev host group.