Ansible

Documentation and Resources

• Ansible Site
• Ansible Documentation
• Ansible Galaxy
• Online YAML Tools
• Code Beautify
• Ansible Automation Hub

Galaxy Collections I Care About

IBM Storage

• IBM Storage Virtualize Galaxy Collection
• IBM Storage Virtualize on Github

Brocade

• Brocade FOS FC Collection
• Brocade on Github

Ansible collections stored here: /root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ibm/storage_virtualize

Implementation

Install Python

dnf install python3.9 -y  

Install Ansible

python3 -m pip install --user ansible  

Getting Started

Sample Ansible Setup

mkdir /etc/ansible
mkdir /etc/ansible/playbooks

You can run ansible modules directly with the command: ansible You can run an ansible playbook using the command: ansible-playbook

Hello World! Playbook Example

1. Create the emply playbook file

   cd /etc/ansible/playbooks
   vi helloworld.yml
   

2. Enter the following contents in the playbook YAML file

   ---
   - name: My second playbook
   hosts: localhost
   
   tasks:
   - name: Print Hello World!
       debug: msg="Hello World!"
   

3. Run the playbook

   ansible-playbook helloworld.yml