Basic Ansible template

Objectives

The objective of this project is to demostrate how to use Ansible sticking to a recommended directory structure.

• It includes the windows bootstraping script to prepare Windows remote hosts to be provisioned with Ansible (ansible_remote_bootstrapping.yml)
• Use of group_vars.
• Minimum ansible.cfg setup
• Inventory file (hosts) and in-situ group variable demonstration.
• Playbook examples.

Requirements

• A Linux distribution
• Ansible
• SSH key pair setup between the Ansible control machine and the remote hosts.

Advantages

Some advantage of Ansible for configuration management are:

• It's agentless (no agent needed in the remote host)
• Idempotent (things are done ONLY if needed. Repetitive executions won't break anything)
• It's declarative (defines the state you want in the remote host)
• Easy to use.

Useful references

• https://www.ansible.com/blog/connecting-to-a-windows-host
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icR-df2Olm8&list=PLFiccIuLB0OiWh7cbryhCaGPoqjQ62NpU