EX407 Sample Questions Answers

Create a playbook called regulartasks.yml which has the system that append the date to /root/datefile every day at noon. Name is job 'datejob'

In /home/sandy/ansible/ create a playbook called logvol.yml. In the play create a logical volume called Iv0 and make it of size 1500MiB on volume group vgO If there is not enough space in the volume group print a message "Not enough space for logical volume" and then make a 800MiB Iv0 instead. If the volume group still doesn't exist, create a message "Volume group doesn't exist" Create an xfs filesystem on all Iv0 logical volumes. Don't mount the logical volume.

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control.realmX.example.com _ workstation.lab.example.com

node1.realmX.example.com _ servera.lab.example.com

node2.realmX.example.com _ serverb.lab.example.com

node3.realmX.example.com _ serverc.lab.example.com

node4.realmX.example.com _ serverd.lab.example.com

node5.realmX.example.com

- username:root, password:redhat

- username:admin, password:redhat

note1. don’t change ‘root’ or ‘admin’ password.

note2. no need to create ssh-keygen for access, its pre-defined

note3. SELinux is in enforcing mode and firewalld is disabled/stop on whole managed hosts.

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Create a playbook called balance.yml as follows:

* The playbook contains a play that runs on hosts in balancers host group and uses

the balancer role.

--> This role configures a service to loadbalance webserver requests between hosts

in the webservers host group.curl

--> When implemented, browsing to hosts in the balancers host group (for example

http://node5.example.com) should produce the following output:

Welcome to node3.example.com on 192.168.10.z

--> Reloading the browser should return output from the alternate web server:

Welcome to node4.example.com on 192.168.10.a

* The playbook contains a play that runs on hosts in webservers host group and uses

the phphello role.

--> When implemented, browsing to hosts in the webservers host group with the URL /

hello.php should produce the following output:

Hello PHP World from FQDN

--> where FQDN is the fully qualified domain name of the host. For example,

browsing to http://node3.example.com/hello.php, should produce the following output:

Hello PHP World from node3.example.com

* Similarly, browsing to http://node4.example.com/hello.php, should produce the

following output:

Hello PHP World from node4.example.com