Introduction to Ansible Transcripts
Chapter: Configuring Servers
Lecture: Testing Our Playbook
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This time when we execute our playbook we don't want to use init_config. We're going to create a new playbook. Copy what's in init_config
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create a new playbook webserver.yml. The user this time is going to be deployer, not root. And we're going to apply the common role.
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And we'll add web server role to that once we create it. We should now have everything in place to test out this new configuration.
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Okay, so looks good. Now, that likely took a while for you. What was happening on the remote server was that we were installing a bunch
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of packages and downloading and installing that can take quite a while. Don't worry if it seems like playbook hangs
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for a few minutes, as long as it doesn't error out, it should be okay. And eventually it'll finish up. So now it looks like our playbook is good
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and we can start building upon it using the deployer user and expand out and use the common role to protect against malicious actors and install
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the basic packages we're going to need across our systems.