EX447 Red Hat Certified Specialist in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices Questions and Answers

Install and configure ansible

User sandy has been created on your control node with the appropriate permissions already, do not change or modify ssh keys. Install the necessary packages to run ansible on the control node. Configure ansible.cfg to be in folder /home/sandy/ansible/ansible.cfg and configure to access remote machines via the sandy user. All roles should be in the path /home/sandy/ansible/roles. The inventory path should be in /home/sandy/ansible/invenlory.

You will have access to 5 nodes.

node1.example.com

node2.example.com

node3.example.com

node4.example.com

node5.example.com

Configure these nodes to be in an inventory file where node I is a member of group dev. nodc2 is a member of group test, node3 is a member of group proxy, nodc4 and node 5 are members of group prod. Also, prod is a member of group webservers.

Create a playbook /home/bob/ansible/timesync.yml that runs on hosts in the webservers host group and does the following:

• Uses thetimesync RHEL system role.

• Sets the ntp server to 0.uk.pool.ntp.org

• Sets the timezone to UTC

Create a file in/home/sandy/ansible/calledreport.yml.Using this playbook, get a filecalledreport.txt(make it look exactly as below). Copy this file over to all remote hosts at/root/report.txt.Then edit the lines in the file to provide the real informationofthehosts. Ifa disk does not exist then write NONE.

Create a playbook calledtimesvnc.yml in /home/sandy/ansible using rhel system role timesync. Set the time to use currently configured nip with the server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org. Enable burst. Do this on all hosts.