This repository serves as a reference for the code associated with Ansible Playbook Essentials by Gourav Shah.

To setup the environment to learn ansible, use the following references.

Hardware and Software Prerequisites

Common Lab Setup Instructions

Once you install Virtualbox, Vagrant etc, open a terminalwith bash shell (ConEMU, Gitbash, iterm), change into the directory where you have cloned this repository and start executing the following commands,

vagrant up control

vagrant ssh control 

Once logged in to the control node, install ansible using official installation instructions here

*Please note Ansible 1.9 was the latest version available at the time of writing of this book. If you have installed a later version, specially 2.0 onwards, there are changes which may be incompatible with the examples provided in the text. Please make changes accordingly. *

Open additional terminals to bring up rest of the nodes (Load Balancer, App and Database), You should at the least have 3 nodes setup e.g. 1 control, 1 app , 1db.

In each terminal, bring up one node and connect.

vagrant up www
vagrant up www

vagrant up db 
vagrant ssh db

vagrant up lb
vagrant ssh lb