Introduction – Who We Are – What is this?

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Welcome to

Practical Ansible

A half day workshop

designed to get you up and running

Previous experience Configuration Management We will run through - Who we are - the structure of the workshop - what you should get out of the workshop

Introduction

Who We Are

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The workshop is supplied and provisioned by...

  • Equal Experts

and content and delivery is provided by...

  • Cloud2Class

Equal Experts

www.equalexperts.com

Making Software. Better.

Simple solutions to big business problems.

Cloud2Class

www.cloud2class.com

From the Cloud to the Classroom

Virtual training environments and instructors

The key attributes of the workshop

What is this?

A fast-paced practical workshop
  • Technology Introduction
  • Team based
  • Collaborative
  • Minimum to get you up and running
  • Resources to carry on
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What is this?

But this means...
  • Lot's to cover
  • Won't cover everything
  • Less detail
  • Rough edges

Structure

 

  • Team-based
  • Goals
  • 3 Sections
  • Winning team gets a super-secret prize
ChatStop :making sure it makes sense, questions, working out how the information you learned can hekp you reach your goals Team-time is collaboration time. Put it into practise. Ask me to help out at any time I wont type the commands for you, but i will point you in the right direction. Each section looks broadly like this...
Theory
Demo
Breakdown
ChatStop
Team-Time
Let's get to know each other - names - expectations - favourite movie * Set up teams in interface * Show the scoreboard

Teamwork and Goals

There are no losers: Unless you're the winner

Teamwork and Goals

There are no losers: Unless you're the winner

Kanbanflow

We will use Kanbanflow is the tool to...
  • Track reference information
  • Store credentials
  • gather feedback
Log on to the various sites Show creds in kanbanflow

Training Environment

A little bit of theory: 1

What is Ansible

Ad-Hoc commands

Configuration Management

Goals

Getting your webserver up and running webnode-1 webnode-2 Install a webserver Install mysql Deploy web content Create the database web content: /root/webcontent creation script: /root/initialise.sql
  • Don't log on to the servers

What is Ansible?

According to Wikipedia
Minimal in nature. Management systems should not impose additional dependencies on the environment.[9] Consistent.[clarification needed] Secure. Ansible does not deploy vulnerable agents to nodes. Only OpenSSH is required, which is already critically tested.[9] Highly reliable. The idempotent resource model is applied to deployment to prevent side-effects from re-running scripts.[1] Low learning curve. Playbooks use an easy and descriptive language based on YAML.
According to Ansible
Ansible is an Open Source tool that can be used for... Configuration Management Orchestration Deployment Ansible strives to give you: basic ability to blast out commands to remote systems basic ability to blast out resource instructions to a remote system ability to trigger some configuration management automation to run some basic ordering of what system should configure before some other system the ability to build a general purpose workflow system, such as a pipeline of dependent steps in an IT process That last one is awesome

Use-Cases

Configuration Management :
Enforcing a defined state upon a running machine e.g. Software loadout, user management, service configuration (nginx, ntp), OS configuration (kernel parameters), scheduled jobs (cron)
Orchestration :
Performing operations on machines in relation to each other GET mainstream definition e.g. Cluster management (MongoDB, ElasticSearch), Complex installations (atabase must be up first), Multi-step deployments
Deployment :
From simple, to scaled, to multi-tier traditional applications
Why is it so good Full-on demo - two machines - install mysql on one - initialise the database - install simple web app on the other - install wordpress on the other - run twice - run components Components Transport mechanism: ssh - setting up ssh accounts Which machines? host-lists and dynamic host-lists Two main modes of operation - Ad Hoc mode Modules Lightning Demo - get status from all machines Breakdown Anatomy of an Ad-Hoc command What they are How to use them Cheatsheet for ad-hoc commands Layout goal 2 - install and recycle a cluster - write a playbook to do this - bonus goal Part 2: A little bit of theory part 2 Playbooks Variables Pipelining application deployment ochestration examples

Reference

Installation - Cheatsheet - docs.ansible.com

Welcome to Practical Ansible A half day workshop designed to get you up and running