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<h1>YAML Syntax<a class="headerlink" href="#yaml-syntax" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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python: Elite
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dotnet: Lame</pre>
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||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#callback-plugins">Callback Plugins</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#connection-type-plugins">Connection Type Plugins</a></li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</span>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
<ul class="nav secondary-nav">
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<form class="pull-left" action="search.html" method="get">
|
||||
<input type="text" name="q" placeholder="Search" />
|
||||
<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
|
||||
<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
|
||||
</form>
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="container">
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="section" id="api-integrations">
|
||||
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">API & Integrations</a><a class="headerlink" href="#api-integrations" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
|
||||
<p>There are several interesting ways to use Ansible from an API perspective. You can use
|
||||
the Ansible python API to control nodes, you can extend Ansible to respond to various python events,
|
||||
and you can plug in inventory data from external data sources. Ansible is written in its own
|
||||
API so you have a considerable amount of power across the board.</p>
|
||||
<div class="contents topic" id="table-of-contents">
|
||||
<p class="topic-title first"><cite>Table of contents</cite></p>
|
||||
<ul class="simple">
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#api-integrations" id="id2">API & Integrations</a><ul>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#python-api" id="id3">Python API</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#plugins-repository" id="id4">Plugins Repository</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#external-inventory-scripts" id="id5">External Inventory Scripts</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#callback-plugins" id="id6">Callback Plugins</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#connection-type-plugins" id="id7">Connection Type Plugins</a></li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="python-api">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">Python API</a><a class="headerlink" href="#python-api" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>The Python API is very powerful, and is how the ansible CLI and ansible-playbook
|
||||
are implemented.</p>
|
||||
<p>It’s pretty simple:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ansible.runner</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="n">runner</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ansible</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">runner</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Runner</span><span class="p">(</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">module_name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'ping'</span><span class="p">,</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">module_args</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">''</span><span class="p">,</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">pattern</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'web*'</span><span class="p">,</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">forks</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">10</span>
|
||||
<span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">datastructure</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">runner</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">run</span><span class="p">()</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>The run method returns results per host, grouped by whether they
|
||||
could be contacted or not. Return types are module specific, as
|
||||
expressed in the ‘ansible-modules’ documentation.:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>{
|
||||
"dark" : {
|
||||
"web1.example.com" : "failure message"
|
||||
}
|
||||
"contacted" : {
|
||||
"web2.example.com" : 1
|
||||
}
|
||||
}</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>A module can return any type of JSON data it wants, so Ansible can
|
||||
be used as a framework to rapidly build powerful applications and scripts.</p>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="detailed-api-example">
|
||||
<h3>Detailed API Example<a class="headerlink" href="#detailed-api-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>The following script prints out the uptime information for all hosts:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c">#!/usr/bin/python</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">ansible.runner</span>
|
||||
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">sys</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="c"># construct the ansible runner and execute on all hosts</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">results</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ansible</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">runner</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Runner</span><span class="p">(</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">pattern</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'*'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">forks</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">,</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">module_name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'command'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">module_args</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'/usr/bin/uptime'</span><span class="p">,</span>
|
||||
<span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">run</span><span class="p">()</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">results</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">:</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"No hosts found"</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">sys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"UP ***********"</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hostname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">result</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">results</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">'contacted'</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">items</span><span class="p">():</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="s">'failed'</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">result</span><span class="p">:</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s"> >>> </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hostname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">result</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">'stdout'</span><span class="p">])</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"FAILED *******"</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hostname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">result</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">results</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">'contacted'</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">items</span><span class="p">():</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="s">'failed'</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">result</span><span class="p">:</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s"> >>> </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hostname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">result</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">'msg'</span><span class="p">])</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"DOWN *********"</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hostname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">result</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">results</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">'dark'</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">items</span><span class="p">():</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s"> >>> </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hostname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">result</span><span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Advanced programmers may also wish to read the source to ansible itself, for
|
||||
it uses the Runner() API (with all available options) to implement the
|
||||
command line tools <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ansible</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ansible-playbook</span></tt>.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="plugins-repository">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">Plugins Repository</a><a class="headerlink" href="#plugins-repository" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>The remainder of features in the API docs have components available in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/plugins">ansible-plugins</a>. Send us a github pull request if you develop any interesting features.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="external-inventory-scripts">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">External Inventory Scripts</a><a class="headerlink" href="#external-inventory-scripts" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Often a user of a configuration management system will want to keep inventory
|
||||
in a different system. Frequent examples include LDAP, <a class="reference external" href="http://cobbler.github.com">Cobbler</a>,
|
||||
or a piece of expensive enterprisey CMDB software. Ansible easily supports all
|
||||
of these options via an external inventory system. The plugins directory contains some of these already – including options for EC2/Eucalyptus and OpenStack, which will be detailed below.</p>
|
||||
<p>It’s possible to write an external inventory script in any language. If you are familiar with Puppet terminology, this concept is basically the same as ‘external nodes’, with the slight difference that it also defines which hosts are managed.</p>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="script-conventions">
|
||||
<h3>Script Conventions<a class="headerlink" href="#script-conventions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>When the external node script is called with the single argument ‘–list’, the script must return a JSON hash/dictionary of all the groups to be managed, with a list of each host/IP as the value for each hash/dictionary element, like so:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">{</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">'databases'</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s">'host1.example.com'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">'host2.example.com'</span> <span class="p">],</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">'webservers'</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s">'host2.example.com'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">'host3.example.com'</span> <span class="p">],</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">'atlanta'</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s">'host1.example.com'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">'host4.example.com'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">'host5.example.com'</span> <span class="p">]</span>
|
||||
<span class="p">}</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>When called with the arguments ‘–host <hostname>’ (where <hostname> is a host from above), the script must return either an empty JSON
|
||||
hash/dictionary, or a list of key/value variables to make available to templates or playbooks. Returning variables is optional,
|
||||
if the script does not wish to do this, returning an empty hash/dictionary is the way to go:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">{</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">'favcolor'</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">'red'</span><span class="p">,</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">'ntpserver'</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">'wolf.example.com'</span><span class="p">,</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">'monitoring'</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">'pack.example.com'</span>
|
||||
<span class="p">}</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="example-the-cobbler-external-inventory-script">
|
||||
<h3>Example: The Cobbler External Inventory Script<a class="headerlink" href="#example-the-cobbler-external-inventory-script" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>It is expected that many Ansible users will also be <a class="reference external" href="http://cobbler.github.com">Cobbler</a> users. Cobbler has a generic
|
||||
layer that allows it to represent data for multiple configuration management systems (even at the same time), and has
|
||||
been referred to as a ‘lightweight CMDB’ by some admins. This particular script will communicate with Cobbler
|
||||
using Cobbler’s XMLRPC API.</p>
|
||||
<p>To tie Ansible’s inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy <a class="reference external" href="https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py">this script</a> to /etc/ansible/hosts and <cite>chmod +x</cite> the file. cobblerd will now need
|
||||
to be running when you are using Ansible.</p>
|
||||
<p>Test the file by running <cite>./etc/ansible/hosts</cite> directly. You should see some JSON data output, but it may not have
|
||||
anything in it just yet.</p>
|
||||
<p>Let’s explore what this does. In cobbler, assume a scenario somewhat like the following:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>cobbler profile add --name=webserver --distro=CentOS6-x86_64
|
||||
cobbler profile edit --name=webserver --mgmt-classes="webserver" --ksmeta="a=2 b=3"
|
||||
cobbler system edit --name=foo --dns-name="foo.example.com" --mgmt-classes="atlanta" --ksmeta="c=4"
|
||||
cobbler system edit --name=bar --dns-name="bar.example.com" --mgmt-classes="atlanta" --ksmeta="c=5"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>In the example above, the system ‘foo.example.com’ will be addressable by ansible directly, but will also be addressable when using the group names ‘webserver’ or ‘atlanta’. Since Ansible uses SSH, we’ll try to contract system foo over ‘foo.example.com’, only, never just ‘foo’. Similarly, if you try “ansible foo” it wouldn’t find the system... but “ansible ‘foo*’” would, because the system DNS name starts with ‘foo’.</p>
|
||||
<p>The script doesn’t just provide host and group info. In addition, as a bonus, when the ‘setup’ module is run (which happens automatically when using playbooks), the variables ‘a’, ‘b’, and ‘c’ will all be auto-populated in the templates:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre># file: /srv/motd.j2
|
||||
Welcome, I am templated with a value of a={{ a }}, b={{ b }}, and c={{ c }}</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Which could be executed just like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible webserver -m setup
|
||||
ansible webserver -m template -a "src=/tmp/motd.j2 dest=/etc/motd"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">The name ‘webserver’ came from cobbler, as did the variables for
|
||||
the config file. You can still pass in your own variables like
|
||||
normal in Ansible, but variables from the external inventory script
|
||||
will override any that have the same name.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>So, with the template above (motd.j2), this would result in the following data being written to /etc/motd for system ‘foo’:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>Welcome, I am templated with a value of a=2, b=3, and c=4</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>And on system ‘bar’ (bar.example.com):</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>Welcome, I am templated with a value of a=2, b=3, and c=5</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>And technically, though there is no major good reason to do it, this also works too:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible webserver -m shell -a "echo {{ a }}"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>So in other words, you can use those variables in arguments/actions as well. You might use this to name
|
||||
a conf.d file appropriately or something similar. Who knows?</p>
|
||||
<p>So that’s the Cobbler integration support – using the cobbler script as an example, it should be trivial to adapt Ansible to pull inventory, as well as variable information, from any data source. If you create anything interesting, please share with the mailing list, and we can keep it in the source code tree for others to use.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="example-aws-ec2-external-inventory-script">
|
||||
<h3>Example: AWS EC2 External Inventory Script<a class="headerlink" href="#example-aws-ec2-external-inventory-script" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>If you use Amazon Web Services EC2, maintaining an inventory file might not be the best approach. For this reason, you can use the <a class="reference external" href="https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/plugins/inventory/ec2.py">EC2 external inventory</a> script.</p>
|
||||
<p>You can use this script in one of two ways. The easiest is to use Ansible’s <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-i</span></tt> command line option and specify the path to the script.</p>
|
||||
<blockquote>
|
||||
<div>ansible -i ec2.py -u ubuntu us-east-1d -m ping</div></blockquote>
|
||||
<p>The second option is to copy the script to <cite>/etc/ansible/hosts</cite> and <cite>chmod +x</cite> it. You will also need to copy the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ec2.ini</span></tt> file to <cite>/etc/ansible/ec2.ini</cite>. Then you can run ansible as you would normally.</p>
|
||||
<p>To successfully make an API call to AWS, you will need to configure Boto (the Python interface to AWS). There are a <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html">variety of methods</a> available, but the simplest is just to export two environment variables:</p>
|
||||
<blockquote>
|
||||
<div>export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=’AK123’
|
||||
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=’abc123’</div></blockquote>
|
||||
<p>You can test the script by itself to make sure your config is correct</p>
|
||||
<blockquote>
|
||||
<div>cd examples/scripts
|
||||
./ec2_external_inventory.py –list</div></blockquote>
|
||||
<p>After a few moments, you should see your entire EC2 inventory across all regions in JSON.</p>
|
||||
<p>Since each region requires its own API call, if you are only using a small set of regions, feel free to edit <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ec2.ini</span></tt> and list only the regions you are interested in. There are other config options in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ec2.ini</span></tt> including cache control, and destination variables.</p>
|
||||
<p>At their heart, inventory files are simply a mapping from some name to a destination address. The default <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ec2.ini</span></tt> settings are configured for running Ansible from outside EC2 (from your laptop for example). If you are running Ansible from within EC2, internal DNS names and IP addresses may make more sense than public DNS names. In this case, you can modify the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">destination_variable</span></tt> in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ec2.ini</span></tt> to be the private DNS name of an instance. This is particularly important when running Ansible within a private subnet inside a VPC, where the only way to access an instance is via its private IP address. For VPC instances, <cite>vpc_destination_variable</cite> in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ec2.ini</span></tt> provides a means of using which ever <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/ref/ec2.html#module-boto.ec2.instance">boto.ec2.instance variable</a> makes the most sense for your use case.</p>
|
||||
<p>The EC2 external inventory provides mappings to instances from several groups:</p>
|
||||
<dl class="docutils">
|
||||
<dt>Instance ID</dt>
|
||||
<dd>These are groups of one since instance IDs are unique.
|
||||
e.g.
|
||||
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">i-00112233</span></tt>
|
||||
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">i-a1b1c1d1</span></tt></dd>
|
||||
<dt>Region</dt>
|
||||
<dd>A group of all instances in an AWS region.
|
||||
e.g.
|
||||
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">us-east-1</span></tt>
|
||||
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">us-west-2</span></tt></dd>
|
||||
<dt>Availability Zone</dt>
|
||||
<dd>A group of all instances in an availability zone.
|
||||
e.g.
|
||||
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">us-east-1a</span></tt>
|
||||
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">us-east-1b</span></tt></dd>
|
||||
<dt>Security Group</dt>
|
||||
<dd>Instances belong to one or more security groups. A group is created for each security group, with all characters except alphanumerics, dashes (-) converted to underscores (_). Each group is prefixed by <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">security_group_</span></tt>
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|
||||
<dd>Each instance can have a variety of key/value pairs associated with it called Tags. The most common tag key is ‘Name’, though anything is possible. Each key/value pair is its own group of instances, again with special characters converted to underscores, in the format <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">tag_KEY_VALUE</span></tt>
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<p>Though not detailed here in as much depth as the EC2 module, there’s also a OpenStack Nova external inventory source in the plugins directory. See the inline comments in the module source.</p>
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<p>Ansible can be configured via code to respond to external events. This can include enhancing logging, signalling an external software
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<p>By default, ansible ships with a ‘paramiko’ SSH, native ssh (just called ‘ssh’), and ‘local’ connection type, which can be used
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in playbooks and with /usr/bin/ansible to decide how you want to talk to remote machines. The basics of these connection types
|
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are covered in the ‘getting started’ section. Should you want to extend Ansible to support other transports (SNMP? Message bus?
|
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Carrier Pigeon?) it’s as simple as copying the format of one of the existing modules and dropping it into the connection plugins
|
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<p>Here are some tips for making the most of Ansible.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Always Mention State</a><a class="headerlink" href="#always-mention-state" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>The ‘state’ parameter is optional to a lot of modules. Whether
|
||||
‘state=present’ or ‘state=absent’, it’s always best to leave that
|
||||
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|
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|
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Group By Roles</a><a class="headerlink" href="#group-by-roles" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>A system can be in multiple groups. See <a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html"><em>Inventory & Patterns</em></a>. Having groups named after things like
|
||||
<em>webservers</em> and <em>dbservers</em> is repeated in the examples because it’s a very powerful concept.</p>
|
||||
<p>This allows playbooks to target machines based on role, as well as to assign role specific variables
|
||||
using the group variable system.</p>
|
||||
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<div class="section" id="directory-organization">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Directory Organization</a><a class="headerlink" href="#directory-organization" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Playbooks should be organized like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre># root of source control repository
|
||||
├── acme/
|
||||
│ ├── setup.yml
|
||||
│ └── stop.yml
|
||||
├── files/
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
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|
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|
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<p>Any directories or files not needed can be omitted. Not all modules
|
||||
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|
||||
‘handlers’, ‘tasks’, and ‘templates’. To review what each of
|
||||
these sections do, see <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks2.html"><em>Advanced Playbooks</em></a>.</p>
|
||||
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|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: webservers
|
||||
user: root
|
||||
|
||||
vars_files:
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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tasks:
|
||||
- include: tasks/setup.yml
|
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|
||||
- include: handlers/main.yml</pre>
|
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|
||||
<p>The tasks are individually broken out in ‘acme/tasks/setup.yml’, and handlers, which are common to all task files,
|
||||
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|
||||
when things change, and these are described in <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>.</p>
|
||||
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|
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|
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Bundling Ansible Modules With Playbooks</a><a class="headerlink" href="#bundling-ansible-modules-with-playbooks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<p>If a playbook has a ”./library” directory relative to it’s YAML file,
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<div class="section" id="miscellaneous-tips">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Miscellaneous Tips</a><a class="headerlink" href="#miscellaneous-tips" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>When you can do something simply, do something simply. Do not reach
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
while also using an external inventory file.</p>
|
||||
<p>Optimize for readability. Whitespace between sections of YAML
|
||||
documents and in between tasks is strongly encouraged, as is usage of
|
||||
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Command Line Examples And Next Steps</a><a class="headerlink" href="#command-line-examples-and-next-steps" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Parallelism and Shell Commands</a><a class="headerlink" href="#parallelism-and-shell-commands" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>Let’s use ansible’s command line tool to reboot all web servers in Atlanta, 10 at a time. First, let’s
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<p>If you don’t want to use ssh-agent and want to instead SSH with a
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|
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|
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<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible atlanta -a <span class="s2">"/usr/bin/foo"</span> -u username -U otheruser <span class="o">[</span>--ask-sudo-pass<span class="o">]</span>
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|
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|
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|
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">File Transfer</a><a class="headerlink" href="#file-transfer" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>Here’s another use case for the <cite>/usr/bin/ansible</cite> command line. Ansible can SCP lots of files to multiple machines in parallel.</p>
|
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|
||||
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|
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|
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|
||||
<p>If you use playbooks, you can also take advantage of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">template</span></tt> module,
|
||||
which takes this another step further. (See module and playbook documentation).</p>
|
||||
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">file</span></tt> module allows changing ownership and permissions on files. These
|
||||
same options can be passed directly to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">copy</span></tt> module as well:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m file -a <span class="s2">"dest=/srv/foo/a.txt mode=600"</span>
|
||||
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|
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|
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<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">file</span></tt> module can also create directories, similar to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">mkdir</span> <span class="pre">-p</span></tt>:</p>
|
||||
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<p>As well as delete directories (recursively) and delete files:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m file -a <span class="s2">"dest=/path/to/c state=absent"</span>
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<div class="section" id="managing-packages">
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Managing Packages</a><a class="headerlink" href="#managing-packages" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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||||
<p>There are modules available for yum and apt. Here are some examples
|
||||
with yum.</p>
|
||||
<p>Ensure a package is installed, but don’t update it:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m yum -a <span class="s2">"pkg=acme state=installed"</span>
|
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</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Ensure a package is installed to a specific version:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m yum -a <span class="s2">"pkg=acme-1.5 state=installed"</span>
|
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</pre></div>
|
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</div>
|
||||
<p>Ensure a package is at the latest version:</p>
|
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<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m yum -a <span class="s2">"pkg=acme state=latest"</span>
|
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</pre></div>
|
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|
||||
<p>Ensure a package is not installed:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m yum -a <span class="s2">"pkg=acme state=removed"</span>
|
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</pre></div>
|
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|
||||
<p>Currently Ansible only has modules for managing packages with yum and apt. You can install
|
||||
for other packages for now using the command module or (better!) contribute a module
|
||||
for other package managers. Stop by the mailing list for info/details.</p>
|
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|
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<div class="section" id="users-and-groups">
|
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Users and Groups</a><a class="headerlink" href="#users-and-groups" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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|
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|
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exist:</p>
|
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<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -m user -a <span class="s2">"name=foo password=<crypted password here>"</span>
|
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|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -m user -a <span class="s2">"name=foo state=absent"</span>
|
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|
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|
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<p>See the <a class="reference internal" href="modules.html"><em>Ansible Modules</em></a> section for details on all of the available options, including
|
||||
how to manipulate groups and group membership.</p>
|
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|
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<div class="section" id="deploying-from-source-control">
|
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Deploying From Source Control</a><a class="headerlink" href="#deploying-from-source-control" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Deploy your webapp straight from git:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m git -a <span class="s2">"repo=git://foo.example.org/repo.git dest=/srv/myapp version=HEAD"</span>
|
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|
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|
||||
<p>Since ansible modules can notify change handlers it is possible to
|
||||
tell ansible to run specific tasks when the code is updated, such as
|
||||
deploying Perl/Python/PHP/Ruby directly from git and then restarting
|
||||
apache.</p>
|
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|
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<div class="section" id="managing-services">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Managing Services</a><a class="headerlink" href="#managing-services" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Ensure a service is started on all webservers:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m service -a <span class="s2">"name=httpd state=started"</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Alternatively, restart a service on all webservers:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m service -a <span class="s2">"name=httpd state=restarted"</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Ensure a service is stopped:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers -m service -a <span class="s2">"name=httpd state=stopped"</span>
|
||||
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|
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|
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|
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<div class="section" id="time-limited-background-operations">
|
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Time Limited Background Operations</a><a class="headerlink" href="#time-limited-background-operations" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Long running operations can be backgrounded, and their status can be
|
||||
checked on later. The same job ID is given to the same task on all
|
||||
hosts, so you won’t lose track. If you kick hosts and don’t want
|
||||
to poll, it looks like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -B 3600 -a <span class="s2">"/usr/bin/long_running_operation --do-stuff"</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
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|
||||
<p>If you do decide you want to check on the job status later, you can:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -m async_status -a <span class="s2">"jid=123456789"</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Polling is built-in and looks like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -B 1800 -P 60 -a <span class="s2">"/usr/bin/long_running_operation --do-stuff"</span>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<p>The above example says “run for 30 minutes max (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-B</span></tt>: 30*60=1800),
|
||||
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|
||||
<p>Poll mode is smart so all jobs will be started before polling will begin on any machine.
|
||||
Be sure to use a high enough <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--forks</span></tt> value if you want to get all of your jobs started
|
||||
very quickly. After the time limit (in seconds) runs out (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-B</span></tt>), the process on
|
||||
the remote nodes will be terminated.</p>
|
||||
<p>Typically you’ll be only be backgrounding long-running
|
||||
shell commands or software upgrades only. Backgrounding the copy module does not do a background file transfer. <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a> also support polling, and have a simplified syntax for this.</p>
|
||||
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|
||||
<div class="section" id="limiting-selected-hosts">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Limiting Selected Hosts</a><a class="headerlink" href="#limiting-selected-hosts" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p class="versionadded">
|
||||
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 0.7.</span></p>
|
||||
<p>What hosts you select to manage can be additionally constrained by using the ‘–limit’ parameter or
|
||||
by using ‘batch’ (or ‘range’) selectors.</p>
|
||||
<p>As mentioned above, patterns can be strung together to select hosts in more than one group:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers:dbservers -m <span class="nb">command</span> -a <span class="s2">"/bin/foo xyz"</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>This is an “or” condition. If you want to further constrain the selection, use –limit, which
|
||||
also works with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ansible-playbook</span></tt>:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers:dbservers -m <span class="nb">command</span> -a <span class="s2">"/bin/foo xyz"</span> region
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Now let’s talk about range selection. Suppose you have 1000 servers in group ‘datacenter’, but only want to target one at a time. This is also easy:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers<span class="o">[</span>0-99<span class="o">]</span> -m <span class="nb">command</span> -a <span class="s2">"/bin/foo xyz"</span>
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>ansible webservers<span class="o">[</span>100-199<span class="o">]</span> -m <span class="nb">command</span> -a <span class="s2">"/bin/foo xyz"</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
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|
||||
<p>This will select the first 100, then the second 100, host entries in the webservers group. (It does not matter
|
||||
what their names or IP addresses are).</p>
|
||||
<p>Both of these methods can be used at the same time, and ranges can also be passed to the –limit parameter.</p>
|
||||
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|
||||
<div class="section" id="configuration-defaults">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Configuration & Defaults</a><a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-defaults" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<p>Ansible has an optional configuration file that can be used to tune settings and also eliminate the need to pass various command line flags. Ansible will look for the config file in the following order, using
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
<dt><a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a></dt>
|
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|
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<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/ansible-project">Mailing List</a></dt>
|
||||
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|
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|
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Requirements</a><a class="headerlink" href="#requirements" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>Requirements for Ansible are extremely minimal.</p>
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<p>Ansible is written for Python 2.6. If you are running Python 2.5 on an “Enterprise Linux” variant,
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your distribution can easily install 2.6 (see instructions in the next section). Newer versions
|
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of Linux and OS X should already have 2.6.</p>
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<p>In additon to Python 2.6, you will want the following packages:</p>
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<ul class="simple">
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">paramiko</span></tt></li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyYAML</span></tt></li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python-jinja2</span></tt></li>
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</ul>
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<p>On the managed nodes, you only need Python 2.4 or later, but if you are are running less than Python 2.6 on them, you will
|
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also need:</p>
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<p class="last">Ansible’s “raw” module (for executing commands in a quick and dirty
|
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way) and the copy module – some of the most basic features in
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ansible – don’t even need that. So technically, you can use
|
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Ansible to install python-simplejson using the raw module, which
|
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then allows you to use everything else. (That’s jumping ahead
|
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though.)</p>
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<div class="section" id="python-2-6-epel-instructions-for-rhel-and-centos-5">
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Python 2.6 EPEL instructions for RHEL and CentOS 5</a><a class="headerlink" href="#python-2-6-epel-instructions-for-rhel-and-centos-5" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>These distributions don’t have Python 2.6 by default, but it is easily
|
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installable. If you have not already done so, <a class="reference external" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL">configure EPEL</a></p>
|
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<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>yum install python26 python26-PyYAML python26-paramiko python26-jinja2
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</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="getting-ansible">
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Getting Ansible</a><a class="headerlink" href="#getting-ansible" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>If you are interested in using all the latest features, you may wish to keep up to date
|
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with the development branch of the git checkout. This also makes it easiest to contribute
|
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back to the project.</p>
|
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<p>Instructions for installing from source are below.</p>
|
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<p>Ansible’s release cycles are about one month long. Due to this
|
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short release cycle, any bugs will generally be fixed in the next release versus maintaining
|
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backports on the stable branch.</p>
|
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<p>You may also wish to follow the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible">Github project</a> if
|
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you have a github account. This is also where we keep the issue tracker for sharing
|
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bugs and feature ideas.</p>
|
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<div class="section" id="running-from-checkout">
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<h3>Running From Checkout<a class="headerlink" href="#running-from-checkout" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<p>Ansible is trivially easy to run from a checkout, root permissions are not required
|
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to use it:</p>
|
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<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
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<span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">cd</span> ./ansible
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">source</span> ./hacking/env-setup
|
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|
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|
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<p>You can optionally specify an inventory file (see <a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html"><em>Inventory & Patterns</em></a>) other than /etc/ansible/hosts:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">echo</span> <span class="s2">"127.0.0.1"</span> > ~/ansible_hosts
|
||||
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|
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</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Now let’s test things:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -m ping --ask-pass
|
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</pre></div>
|
||||
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|
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|
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<div class="section" id="make-install">
|
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<h3>Make Install<a class="headerlink" href="#make-install" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>If you are not working from a distribution where Ansible is packaged yet, you can install Ansible
|
||||
using “make install”. This is done through <cite>python-distutils</cite>:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">cd</span> ./ansible
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>sudo make install
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<div class="section" id="via-rpm">
|
||||
<h3>Via RPM<a class="headerlink" href="#via-rpm" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>RPMs for the last Ansible release are available for <a class="reference external" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL">EPEL</a> 6 and currently supported
|
||||
Fedora distributions. Ansible itself can manage earlier operating
|
||||
systems that contain python 2.4 or higher.</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c"># install the epel-release RPM if needed on CentOS, RHEL, or Scientific Linux</span>
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>sudo yum install ansible
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>You can also use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">rpm</span></tt> command to build an RPM you can
|
||||
distribute and install:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">cd</span> ./ansible
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>make rpm
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>sudo rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/ansible-*.noarch.rpm
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="debian-gentoo-arch-others">
|
||||
<h3>Debian, Gentoo, Arch, Others<a class="headerlink" href="#debian-gentoo-arch-others" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>Ubuntu builds are available <a class="reference external" href="https://launchpad.net/~rquillo/+archive/ansible">in a PPA here</a></p>
|
||||
<p>Debian/Ubuntu package recipes can also be built from the source checkout, run:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>make debian
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Gentoo eBuilds are available <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/uu/ubuilds">on github here</a></p>
|
||||
<p>An Arch PKGBUILD is available on <a class="reference external" href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58621">AUR</a>
|
||||
If you have python3 installed on Arch, you probably want to symlink python to python2:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>If you would like to package Ansible for Homebrew, BSD, or others,
|
||||
please stop by the mailing list and say hi!</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="tagged-releases">
|
||||
<h3>Tagged Releases<a class="headerlink" href="#tagged-releases" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>Tagged releases are available as tar.gz files from the Ansible github
|
||||
project page:</p>
|
||||
<ul class="simple">
|
||||
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/downloads">Ansible/downloads</a></li>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<div class="section" id="choosing-between-paramiko-and-native-ssh">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Choosing Between Paramiko and Native SSH</a><a class="headerlink" href="#choosing-between-paramiko-and-native-ssh" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>By default, ansible uses paramiko to talk to managed nodes over SSH. Paramiko is fast, works
|
||||
very transparently, requires no configuration, and is a good choice for most users.
|
||||
However, it does not support some advanced SSH features that folks will want to use.</p>
|
||||
<p class="versionadded">
|
||||
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 0.5.</span></p>
|
||||
<p>If you want to leverage more advanced SSH features (such as Kerberized
|
||||
SSH or jump hosts), pass the flag “–connection=ssh” to any ansible
|
||||
command, or set the ANSIBLE_TRANSPORT environment variable to
|
||||
‘ssh’. This will cause Ansible to use openssh tools instead.</p>
|
||||
<p>If ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS are not set, ansible will try to use some sensible ControlMaster options
|
||||
by default. You are free to override this environment variable, but should still pass ControlMaster
|
||||
options to ensure performance of this transport. With ControlMaster in use, both transports
|
||||
are roughly the same speed. Without CM, the binary ssh transport is signficantly slower.</p>
|
||||
<p>If none of this makes sense to you, the default paramiko option is probably fine.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="your-first-commands">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Your first commands</a><a class="headerlink" href="#your-first-commands" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Now that you’ve installed Ansible, it’s time to test it.</p>
|
||||
<p>Edit (or create) /etc/ansible/hosts and put one or more remote systems in it, for
|
||||
which you have your SSH key in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">authorized_keys</span></tt>:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>192.168.1.50
|
||||
aserver.example.org
|
||||
bserver.example.org</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Set up SSH agent to avoid retyping passwords:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ssh-agent bash
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>(Depending on your setup, you may wish to ansible’s –private-key-file option to specify a pem file instead)</p>
|
||||
<p>Now ping all your nodes:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -m ping
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>In Ansible 0.7 and later, ansible will attempt to remote connect to the machines using your current
|
||||
user name, just like SSH would. In 0.6 and before, this actually defaults to ‘root’ (we liked the current
|
||||
user behavior better). To override the remote user name, just use the ‘-u’ parameter.</p>
|
||||
<p>If you would like to access sudo mode, there are also flags to do that:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c"># as bruce</span>
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -m ping -u bruce
|
||||
<span class="c"># as bruce, sudoing to root</span>
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -m ping -u bruce --sudo
|
||||
<span class="c"># as bruce, sudoing to batman</span>
|
||||
<span class="nv">$ </span>ansible all -m ping -u bruce --sudo --sudo-user batman
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Now run a live command on all of your nodes:</p>
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<h1>Glossary<a class="headerlink" href="#glossary" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p>After reading through the rest of the documentation, it may be helpful to review some terms.</p>
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<p>ansible – from science fiction, a device for communicating instanteously over large distances.</p>
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<p>ansible – When speaking of /usr/bin/ansible, a tool for ad-hoc task execution on a group of hosts. This constrasts with /usr/bin/ansible-playbook, which is a full on configuration management and orchestration tool built on top of these fundamentals. Both come with ‘ansible’, the application.</p>
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<p>action – the part of a task that specifies what module to run and what arguments to send it</p>
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<p>async – the act of running a ansible task in the background, potentially polling it for completion. This is useful for kicking off tasks where the result is not important, or in executing tasks that would exceed the SSH timeout.</p>
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<p>cobbler – a kickstart, mirroring, power management, and miscellaneous datacenter management tool that Michael wrote before Ansible, and is frequently used with it. See <a class="reference external" href="http://cobbler.github.com">Cobbler</a></p>
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<p>common module code – a facility in which Ansible modules written in Python can minimize boilerplate code for argument validation and returning values. This is not available to non-Python modules but modules can still be written in languages other than Python.</p>
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<p>connection – how Ansible connects to and manages remote hosts. Paramiko and native ssh are the main options, though
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<p>cowsay – a special utility program that, if installed, greatly enhances the clarity of ansible-playbook output.</p>
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<p>daisy chaining – comes up in development discussions. It’s how in Ansible one module (like copy or template) can
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<p>DSL – domain specific language. The idea of making a special “programming” language or a subset of a language to build a tool out of. Ansible doesn’t believe in these, and instead treats it’s playbook language as a data format.</p>
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<p>env-setup – a very useful script in the “hacking” directory of an ansible checkout. Sourcing this script makes it very easy to run ansible from source without doing any installation.</p>
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<p>external inventory script – the act of using an executable script in place of an ansible inventory file, so that ansible will invoke the script when needed to ask about what hosts it is managing and variables related to those hosts.</p>
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<p>fact – a variable discovered about a remote host, rather than configured in a config file. Facts can include
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<p>forks – the level of parallelism used with a /usr/bin/ansible or /usr/bin/ansible-playbook command. Ansible executes multiple remote management commands in parallel to get things done faster.</p>
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<p>func – an earlier ad-hoc execution tool that is the basis of some of the ideas in Ansible. Michael wrote Func with some colleagues from Red Hat, and a later tool called taboot built on Func helped inspire the playbooks language. Func didn’t have a configuration management language on top of it, nor did it use SSH, but it helped pave the way for several other tools.</p>
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<p>handler – a special class of a task that is not run unless a given task registers a change event. Handlers are most
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<p>include – a playbook, handler, or variable data loaded from another file</p>
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<p>infrastructure as code – the practice of treating configuration, management, and deployment of systems as a software project. Ansible doesn’t really believe in this and tries to simplify things by making a simpler language that is easier to write and audit, and is therefore easier to understand by all parties involved. More advanced takes on I.A.C. use actual programming languages to describe configurations.</p>
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<p>inventory – ansible keeps track of what hosts you are managing, and allows them to be put in groups for easier selection. This file is by default in a simple INI format, but can be replaced with an ‘external inventory script’</p>
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<p>Jinja2 – Ansible uses this as a templating language for the ‘template’ module.</p>
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<p>JSON – the format Ansible modules use to return data over the wire. “Java Script Object Notation”</p>
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<p>module – a reusable unit of logic that tells Ansible how to do things on remote machines. Ansible ships with many modules written in Python, but modules can be written in any language. Modules return structured data in JSON.</p>
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<p>notify – what a task does when it detects that something has changed on the remote system. A task notifying a handler
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<p>paramiko – the default connection type for ansible uses a pure-Python SSH library called paramiko. It is generally
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<p>pattern – a selector that can match host or group names using wildcards. Patterns are used in plays or in ad-hoc executions of /usr/bin/ansible to target groups of hosts to manage.</p>
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<p>play – a group of ansible tasks that are to be executed on the same set of hosts. A play is always run by the same user account and may optionally sudo to a particular user after connecting. In addition to a list of tasks, a play may also choose to define variables or include them from other files, all of which are shared with each task in the play.</p>
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<p>playbook – a list of ansible plays grouped together in a single file, which are run top to bottom. Each play may select different hosts and have different tasks. A playbook is analogous to a Chef recipe, a Puppet manifest, a CFEngine “promise”. Playbooks can be broken up into more than one file using includes, in which case it’s still ok to call it a playbook.</p>
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<p>pull – the act of a managed system phoning home to ask how it is configured. This is useful in large scale out scenarios or for periodic automatic system remediation.</p>
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<p>push – the act of reaching out to systems you want to manage rather than them phoning home. This is Ansible’s default
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<p>SSH – secure shell. Ansible by default uses SSH to talk to remote hosts because it is already there and very secure. It does not require any additional daemons.</p>
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<p>task – one of many ansible modules to execute on a given set of hosts, and the parameters to use when calling it.
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<p>template – the act of taking a file with variable placeholders in it and substituting variables to make a final file. Templating is frequently used to place configuration files.</p>
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<p>test-module – a useful script in the “hacking” directory of an ansible checkout for running a module locally, without ansible’s core code in the way. Used when developing or debugging modules.</p>
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<p>Van Halen – the great American Rock Band, known for great instrumental guitar work and also songs about Alien Abductions. All Ansible releases are code named after Van Halen songs. C’mon Dave, gimme a break.</p>
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<p>YAML – the core language format for ansible playbooks and include files. Stands for “YAML Ain’t Markup Language”. YAML can be taken to extremes where it is difficult to write and read, but Ansible uses a relatively simple dialect and minimal levels of nesting.</p>
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<p>Ansible modules are reusable units of magic that can be used by the Ansible API,
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Tutorial</a><a class="headerlink" href="#tutorial" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>Let’s build a module to get and set the system time. For starters, let’s build
|
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a module that just outputs the current time.</p>
|
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<p>We are going to use Python here but any language is possible. Only File I/O and outputing to standard
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out are required. So, bash, C++, clojure, Python, Ruby, whatever you want
|
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is fine.</p>
|
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<p>Now Python Ansible modules contain some extremely powerful shortcuts (that all the core modules use)
|
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but first we are going to build a module the very hard way. The reason we do this is because modules
|
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written in any language OTHER than Python are going to have to do exactly this. We’ll show the easy
|
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way later.</p>
|
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<p>So, here’s an example. You would never really need to build a module to set the system time,
|
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the ‘command’ module could already be used to do this. Though we’re going to make one.</p>
|
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<p>Reading the modules that come with ansible (linked above) is a great way to learn how to write
|
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modules. Keep in mind, though, that some modules in ansible’s source tree are internalisms,
|
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so look at <cite>service</cite> or <cite>yum</cite>, and don’t stare too close into things like <cite>async_wrapper</cite> or
|
||||
you’ll turn to stone. Nobody ever executes async_wrapper directly.</p>
|
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<p>Ok, let’s get going with an example. We’ll use Python. For starters, save this as a file named <cite>time</cite>:</p>
|
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<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c">#!/usr/bin/python</span>
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|
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span>
|
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">json</span>
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|
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<span class="n">date</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">now</span><span class="p">())</span>
|
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<span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">json</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dumps</span><span class="p">({</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">"time"</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">date</span>
|
||||
<span class="p">})</span>
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||||
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<div class="section" id="testing-modules">
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Testing Modules</a><a class="headerlink" href="#testing-modules" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>There’s a useful test script in the source checkout for ansible:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>git clone git@github.com:ansible/ansible.git
|
||||
chmod +x ansible/hacking/test-module</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Let’s run the script you just wrote with that:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible/hacking/test-module -m ./time</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>You should see output that looks something like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">{</span><span class="s">u'time'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">u'2012-03-14 22:13:48.539183'</span><span class="p">}</span>
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|
||||
<p>If you did not, you might have a typo in your module, so recheck it and try again.</p>
|
||||
</div>
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<div class="section" id="reading-input">
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||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Reading Input</a><a class="headerlink" href="#reading-input" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Let’s modify the module to allow setting the current time. We’ll do this by seeing
|
||||
if a key value pair in the form <cite>time=<string></cite> is passed in to the module.</p>
|
||||
<p>Ansible internally saves arguments to an arguments file. So we must read the file
|
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and parse it. The arguments file is just a string, so any form of arguments are legal.
|
||||
Here we’ll do some basic parsing to treat the input as key=value.</p>
|
||||
<p>The example usage we are trying to achieve to set the time is:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>time time="March 14 22:10"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>If no time parameter is set, we’ll just leave the time as is and return the current time.</p>
|
||||
<p>Let’s look at the code. Read the comments as we’ll explain as we go. Note that this
|
||||
is highly verbose because it’s intended as an educational example. You can write modules
|
||||
a lot shorter than this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c">#!/usr/bin/python</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="c"># import some python modules that we'll use. These are all</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># available in Python's core</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span>
|
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">sys</span>
|
||||
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">json</span>
|
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
|
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">shlex</span>
|
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|
||||
<span class="c"># read the argument string from the arguments file</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">args_file</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">sys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">argv</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span>
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
<span class="c"># for this module, we're going to do key=value style arguments</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># this is up to each module to decide what it wants, but all</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># core modules besides 'command' and 'shell' take key=value</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># so this is highly recommended</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="n">arguments</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">shlex</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">args_data</span><span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">arg</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">arguments</span><span class="p">:</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="c"># ignore any arguments without an equals in it</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">arg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">find</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"="</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">:</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="p">(</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">value</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">arg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"="</span><span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="c"># if setting the time, the key 'time'</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># will contain the value we want to set the time to</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">key</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s">"time"</span><span class="p">:</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="c"># now we'll affect the change. Many modules</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># will strive to be 'idempotent', meaning they</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># will only make changes when the desired state</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># expressed to the module does not match</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># the current state. Look at 'service'</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># or 'yum' in the main git tree for an example</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># of how that might look.</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="n">rc</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">system</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"date -s </span><span class="se">\"</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="se">\"</span><span class="s">"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">value</span><span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="c"># always handle all possible errors</span>
|
||||
<span class="c">#</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># when returning a failure, include 'failed'</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># in the return data, and explain the failure</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># in 'msg'. Both of these conventions are</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># required however additional keys and values</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># can be added.</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">rc</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">json</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dumps</span><span class="p">({</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">"failed"</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">"msg"</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">"failed setting the time"</span>
|
||||
<span class="p">})</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">sys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="c"># when things do not fail, we do not</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># have any restrictions on what kinds of</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># data are returned, but it's always a</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># good idea to include whether or not</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># a change was made, as that will allow</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># notifiers to be used in playbooks.</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="n">date</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">now</span><span class="p">())</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">json</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dumps</span><span class="p">({</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">"time"</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">date</span><span class="p">,</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">"changed"</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="bp">True</span>
|
||||
<span class="p">})</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">sys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="c"># if no parameters are sent, the module may or</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># may not error out, this one will just</span>
|
||||
<span class="c"># return the time</span>
|
||||
|
||||
<span class="n">date</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">now</span><span class="p">())</span>
|
||||
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">json</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dumps</span><span class="p">({</span>
|
||||
<span class="s">"time"</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">date</span>
|
||||
<span class="p">})</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Let’s test that module:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible/hacking/test-module -m ./time -a time=\"March 14 12:23\"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>This should return something like:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">{</span><span class="s">"changed"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">"time"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">"2012-03-14 12:23:00.000307"</span><span class="p">}</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="module-provided-facts">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Module Provided ‘Facts’</a><a class="headerlink" href="#module-provided-facts" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>The ‘setup’ module that ships with Ansible provides many variables about a system that can be used in playbooks
|
||||
and templates. However, it’s possible to also add your own facts without modifying the system module. To do
|
||||
this, just have the module return a <cite>ansible_facts</cite> key, like so, along with other return data:</p>
|
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<div class="highlight-python"><pre>{
|
||||
"changed" : True,
|
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"rc" : 5,
|
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"ansible_facts" : {
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"leptons" : 5000
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"colors" : {
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"red" : "FF0000",
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"white" : "FFFFFF"
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||||
<p>These ‘facts’ will be available to all statements called after that module (but not before) in the playbook.
|
||||
A good idea might be make a module called ‘site_facts’ and always call it at the top of each playbook, though
|
||||
we’re always open to improving the selection of core facts in Ansible as well.</p>
|
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<div class="section" id="common-module-boilerplate">
|
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Common Module Boilerplate</a><a class="headerlink" href="#common-module-boilerplate" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>As mentioned, if you are writing a module in Python, there are some very powerful shortcuts you can use.
|
||||
Modules are still transferred as one file, but an arguments file is no longer needed, so these are not
|
||||
only shorter in terms of code, they are actually FASTER in terms of execution time.</p>
|
||||
<p>Rather than mention these here, the best way to learn is to read some of the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/library">source of the modules</a> that come with Ansible.</p>
|
||||
<p>The ‘group’ and ‘user’ modules are reasonably non-trival and showcase what this looks like.</p>
|
||||
<p>Key parts include always ending the module file with:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c"># include magic from lib/ansible/module_common.py</span>
|
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<span class="c">#<<INCLUDE_ANSIBLE_MODULE_COMMON>></span>
|
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<span class="n">main</span><span class="p">()</span>
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</pre></div>
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</div>
|
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<p>And instantiating the module class like:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">module</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">AnsibleModule</span><span class="p">(</span>
|
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<span class="n">argument_spec</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">dict</span><span class="p">(</span>
|
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<span class="n">state</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">dict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">default</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'present'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">choices</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">'present'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">'absent'</span><span class="p">]),</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">dict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">required</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">),</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">enabled</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">dict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">required</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">choices</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">BOOLEANS</span><span class="p">),</span>
|
||||
<span class="n">something</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">dict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">aliases</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s">'whatever'</span><span class="p">])</span>
|
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<span class="p">)</span>
|
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<span class="p">)</span>
|
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|
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|
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<p>The AnsibleModule provides lots of common code for handling returns, parses your arguments
|
||||
for you, and allows you to check inputs.</p>
|
||||
<p>Successful returns are made like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">module</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exit_json</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">changed</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">something_else</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">12345</span><span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
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|
||||
<p>And failures are just as simple (where ‘msg’ is a required parameter to explain the error):</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">module</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fail_json</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">msg</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"Something fatal happened"</span><span class="p">)</span>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<p>There are also other useful functions in the module class, such as module.md5(path). See
|
||||
lib/ansible/module_common.py in the source checkout for implementation details.</p>
|
||||
<p>Again, modules developed this way are best tested with the hacking/test-module script in the git
|
||||
source checkout. Because of the magic involved, this is really the only way the scripts
|
||||
can function outside of Ansible.</p>
|
||||
<p>If submitting a module to ansible’s core code, which we encourage, use of the AnsibleModule
|
||||
class is required.</p>
|
||||
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|
||||
<div class="section" id="common-pitfalls">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Common Pitfalls</a><a class="headerlink" href="#common-pitfalls" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>You should also never do this in a module:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">"some status message"</span>
|
||||
</pre></div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Because the output is supposed to be valid JSON. Except that’s not quite true,
|
||||
but we’ll get to that later.</p>
|
||||
<p>Modules must not output anything on standard error, because the system will merge
|
||||
standard out with standard error and prevent the JSON from parsing. Capturing standard
|
||||
error and returning it as a variable in the JSON on standard out is fine, and is, in fact,
|
||||
how the command module is implemented.</p>
|
||||
<p>If a module returns stderr or otherwise fails to produce valid JSON, the actual output
|
||||
will still be shown in Ansible, but the command will not succeed.</p>
|
||||
<p>Always use the hacking/test-module script when developing modules and it will warn
|
||||
you about these kind of things.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="conventions-recomendations">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Conventions/Recomendations</a><a class="headerlink" href="#conventions-recomendations" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>As a reminder from the example code above, here are some basic conventions
|
||||
and guidelines:</p>
|
||||
<ul class="simple">
|
||||
<li>If the module is addressing an object, the parameter for that object should be called ‘name’ whenever possible, or accept ‘name’ as an alias.</li>
|
||||
<li>If you have a company module that returns facts specific to your installations, a good name for this module is <cite>site_facts</cite>.</li>
|
||||
<li>Modules accepting boolean status should generally accept ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘true’, ‘false’, or anything else a user may likely throw at them. The AnsibleModule common code supports this with “choices=BOOLEANS” and a module.boolean(value) casting function.</li>
|
||||
<li>Include a minimum of dependencies if possible. If there are dependencies, document them at the top of the module file, and have the module raise JSON error messages when the import fails.</li>
|
||||
<li>Modules must be self contained in one file to be auto-transferred by ansible.</li>
|
||||
<li>If packaging modules in an RPM, they only need to be installed on the control machine and should be dropped into /usr/share/ansible. This is entirely optional and up to you.</li>
|
||||
<li>Modules should return JSON or key=value results all on one line. JSON is best if you can do JSON. All return types must be hashes (dictionaries) although they can be nested. Lists or simple scalar values are not supported, though they can be trivially contained inside a dictionary.</li>
|
||||
<li>In the event of failure, a key of ‘failed’ should be included, along with a string explanation in ‘msg’. Modules that raise tracebacks (stacktraces) are generally considered ‘poor’ modules, though Ansible can deal with these returns and will automatically convert anything unparseable into a failed result. If you are using the AnsibleModule common Python code, the ‘failed’ element will be included for you automatically when you call ‘fail_json’.</li>
|
||||
<li>Return codes from modules are not actually not signficant, but continue on with 0=success and non-zero=failure for reasons of future proofing.</li>
|
||||
<li>As results from many hosts will be aggregrated at once, modules should return only relevant output. Returning the entire contents of a log file is generally bad form.</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="shorthand-vs-json">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Shorthand Vs JSON</a><a class="headerlink" href="#shorthand-vs-json" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>To make it easier to write modules in bash and in cases where a JSON
|
||||
module might not be available, it is acceptable for a module to return
|
||||
key=value output all on one line, like this. The Ansible parser
|
||||
will know what to do:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>somekey=1 somevalue=2 rc=3 favcolor=red</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>If you’re writing a module in Python or Ruby or whatever, though, returning
|
||||
JSON is probably the simplest way to go.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="sharing-your-module">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Sharing Your Module</a><a class="headerlink" href="#sharing-your-module" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>If you think your module is generally useful to others, a good place to share it
|
||||
is in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/contrib">Ansible Resources</a>. This is maintained
|
||||
as a simple repo with pointers to other github projects.</p>
|
||||
<p>Contrib modules here can be implemented in a variety of languages.
|
||||
We would like to build up as many of these as possible in as many languages as possible.</p>
|
||||
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/ansible-project">Ansible Mailing List</a></p>
|
||||
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|
||||
<div class="section" id="getting-your-module-into-core">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Getting Your Module Into Core</a><a class="headerlink" href="#getting-your-module-into-core" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>High-quality modules with minimal dependencies
|
||||
can be included in the core, but core modules (just due to the programming
|
||||
preferences of the developers) will need to be implemented in Python and use
|
||||
the AnsibleModule common code, and should generally use consistent arguments with the rest of
|
||||
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|
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|
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<dd>User contributed playbooks, modules, and articles</dd>
|
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<dt><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/library">Github modules directory</a></dt>
|
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|
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<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/ansible-project">Mailing List</a></dt>
|
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<dd>Questions? Help? Ideas? Stop by the list on Google Groups</dd>
|
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<p class="topic-title first"><cite>Table of contents</cite></p>
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<ul class="simple">
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#inventory-patterns" id="id1">Inventory & Patterns</a><ul>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#hosts-and-groups" id="id2">Hosts and Groups</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#selecting-targets" id="id3">Selecting Targets</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#host-variables" id="id4">Host Variables</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#group-variables" id="id5">Group Variables</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#groups-of-groups-and-group-variables" id="id6">Groups of Groups, and Group Variables</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#splitting-out-host-and-group-specific-data" id="id7">Splitting Out Host and Group Specific Data</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#yaml-inventory" id="id8">YAML Inventory</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="hosts-and-groups">
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<span id="inventoryformat"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">Hosts and Groups</a><a class="headerlink" href="#hosts-and-groups" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>The format for /etc/ansible/hosts is an INI format and looks like this:</p>
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<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">mail</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="n">webservers</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="n">foo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span>
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<span class="n">bar</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span>
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<span class="p">[</span><span class="n">dbservers</span><span class="p">]</span>
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<span class="n">one</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span>
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<span class="n">two</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span>
|
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<span class="n">three</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span>
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</pre></div>
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<p>The things in brackets are group names. You don’t have to have them,
|
||||
but they are useful.</p>
|
||||
<p>If you have hosts that run on non-standard SSH ports you can put the port number
|
||||
after the hostname with a colon.</p>
|
||||
<blockquote>
|
||||
<div>four.example.com:5309</div></blockquote>
|
||||
<p>In 0.6 and later, if you have a lot of hosts following similar patterns you can do this rather than listing each hostname:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">webservers</span><span class="p">]</span>
|
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<span class="n">www</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mo">01</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">com</span>
|
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</pre></div>
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<p>Leading zeros can be included or removed, as desired, and the ranges are inclusive.</p>
|
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="selecting-targets">
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">Selecting Targets</a><a class="headerlink" href="#selecting-targets" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
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<p>We’ll go over how to use the command line in <a class="reference internal" href="examples.html"><em>Command Line Examples And Next Steps</em></a> section, however, basically it looks like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible <pattern_goes_here> -m <module_name> -a <arguments></pre>
|
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</div>
|
||||
<p>Such as:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible webservers -m service -a "name=httpd state=restarted"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
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<p>Within <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>, these patterns can be used for even greater purposes.</p>
|
||||
<p>Anyway, to use Ansible, you’ll first need to know how to tell Ansible which hosts in your inventory file to talk to.
|
||||
This is done by designating particular host names or groups of hosts.</p>
|
||||
<p>The following patterns target all hosts in the inventory file:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>all
|
||||
*</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Basically ‘all’ is an alias for ‘*’. It is also possible to address a specific host or hosts:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>one.example.com
|
||||
one.example.com:two.example.com
|
||||
192.168.1.50
|
||||
192.168.1.*</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>The following patterns address one or more groups, which are denoted
|
||||
with the aforementioned bracket headers in the inventory file:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>webservers
|
||||
webservers:dbservers</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>You can exclude groups as well, for instance, all webservers not in Phoenix:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>webservers:!phoenix</pre>
|
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</div>
|
||||
<p>Individual host names (or IPs), but not groups, can also be referenced using
|
||||
wildcards:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>*.example.com
|
||||
*.com</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>It’s also ok to mix wildcard patterns and groups at the same time:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>one*.com:dbservers</pre>
|
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</div>
|
||||
<p>Easy enough. See <a class="reference internal" href="examples.html"><em>Command Line Examples And Next Steps</em></a> and then <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a> for how to do things to selected hosts.</p>
|
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<div class="section" id="host-variables">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">Host Variables</a><a class="headerlink" href="#host-variables" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>It is easy to assign variables to hosts that will be used later in playbooks:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[atlanta]
|
||||
host1 http_port=80 maxRequestsPerChild=808
|
||||
host2 http_port=303 maxRequestsPerChild=909</pre>
|
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|
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<div class="section" id="group-variables">
|
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">Group Variables</a><a class="headerlink" href="#group-variables" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Variables can also be applied to an entire group at once:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[atlanta]
|
||||
host1
|
||||
host2
|
||||
|
||||
[atlanta:vars]
|
||||
ntp_server=ntp.atlanta.example.com
|
||||
proxy=proxy.atlanta.example.com</pre>
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<div class="section" id="groups-of-groups-and-group-variables">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">Groups of Groups, and Group Variables</a><a class="headerlink" href="#groups-of-groups-and-group-variables" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>It is also possible to make groups of groups and assign
|
||||
variables to groups. These variables can be used by /usr/bin/ansible-playbook, but not
|
||||
/usr/bin/ansible:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[atlanta]
|
||||
host1
|
||||
host2
|
||||
|
||||
[raleigh]
|
||||
host2
|
||||
host3
|
||||
|
||||
[southeast:children]
|
||||
atlanta
|
||||
raleigh
|
||||
|
||||
[southeast:vars]
|
||||
some_server=foo.southeast.example.com
|
||||
halon_system_timeout=30
|
||||
self_destruct_countdown=60
|
||||
escape_pods=2
|
||||
|
||||
[usa:children]
|
||||
southeast
|
||||
northeast
|
||||
southwest
|
||||
southeast</pre>
|
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</div>
|
||||
<p>If you need to store lists or hash data, or prefer to keep host and group specific variables
|
||||
seperate from the inventory file, see the next section.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="splitting-out-host-and-group-specific-data">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">Splitting Out Host and Group Specific Data</a><a class="headerlink" href="#splitting-out-host-and-group-specific-data" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p class="versionadded">
|
||||
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 0.6.</span></p>
|
||||
<p>In addition to the storing variables directly in the INI file, host
|
||||
and group variables can be stored in individual files relative to the
|
||||
inventory file. These variable files are in YAML format.</p>
|
||||
<p>Assuming the inventory file path is:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>/etc/ansible/hosts</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>If the host is named ‘foosball’, and in groups ‘raleigh’ and ‘webservers’, variables
|
||||
in YAML files at the following locations will be made available to the host:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>/etc/ansible/group_vars/raleigh
|
||||
/etc/ansible/group_vars/webservers
|
||||
/etc/ansible/host_vars/foosball</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>For instance, suppose you have hosts grouped by datacenter, and each datacenter
|
||||
uses some different servers. The data in the groupfile ‘/etc/ansible/group_vars/raleigh’ for
|
||||
the ‘raleigh’ group might look like:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
ntp_server: acme.example.org
|
||||
database_server: storage.example.org</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>It is ok if these files do not exist, this is an optional feature.</p>
|
||||
<p>Tip: Keeping your inventory file and variables in a git repo (or other version control)
|
||||
is an excellent way to track changes to your inventory and host variables.</p>
|
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<p class="versionadded">
|
||||
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 0.5: </span>If you ever have two python interpreters on a system, set a
|
||||
variable called ‘ansible_python_interpreter’ to the Python
|
||||
interpreter path you would like to use.</p>
|
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|
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<div class="section" id="yaml-inventory">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents">YAML Inventory</a><a class="headerlink" href="#yaml-inventory" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p class="deprecated">
|
||||
<span class="versionmodified">Deprecated since version 0.7.</span></p>
|
||||
<p>Ansible’s YAML inventory format is deprecated and will be removed in
|
||||
Ansible 0.7. Ansible 0.6 includes a <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/yaml_to_ini.py">conversion script</a>.</p>
|
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<p>Usage:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">yaml_to_ini</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">py</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">etc</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">ansible</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">hosts</span>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<input type="text" name="q" placeholder="Search" />
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<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
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<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
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<div class="section" id="playbooks">
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Playbooks</a><a class="headerlink" href="#playbooks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
|
||||
<div class="contents topic" id="contents">
|
||||
<p class="topic-title first">Contents</p>
|
||||
<ul class="simple">
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#playbooks" id="id2">Playbooks</a><ul>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#introduction" id="id3">Introduction</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#playbook-language-example" id="id4">Playbook Language Example</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#basics" id="id5">Basics</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#running-operations-on-change" id="id6">Running Operations On Change</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#include-files-and-encouraging-reuse" id="id7">Include Files And Encouraging Reuse</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#executing-a-playbook" id="id8">Executing A Playbook</a></li>
|
||||
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tips-and-tricks" id="id9">Tips and Tricks</a></li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="introduction">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Introduction</a><a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Playbooks are a completely different way to use ansible than in task execution mode, and are
|
||||
particularly powerful. Simply put, playbooks are the basis for a really simple
|
||||
configuration management and multi-machine deployment system,
|
||||
unlike any that already exist, and one that is very well suited to deploying complex applications.</p>
|
||||
<p>Playbooks can declare configurations, but they can also orchestrate steps of
|
||||
any manual ordered process, even as different steps must bounce back and forth
|
||||
between sets of machines in particular orders. They can launch tasks
|
||||
synchronously or asynchronously.</p>
|
||||
<p>While you might run the main /usr/bin/ansible program for ad-hoc
|
||||
tasks, playbooks are more likely to be kept in source control and used
|
||||
to push out your configuration or assure the configurations of your
|
||||
remote systems are in spec.</p>
|
||||
<p>Let’s dive in and see how they work. As you go, you may wish to open
|
||||
the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/examples/playbooks">github examples directory</a> in
|
||||
another tab, so you can apply the theory to what things look like in practice.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="playbook-language-example">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Playbook Language Example</a><a class="headerlink" href="#playbook-language-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Playbooks are expressed in YAML format and have a minimum of syntax.
|
||||
Each playbook is composed of one or more ‘plays’ in a list.</p>
|
||||
<p>The goal of a play is map a group of hosts to some well defined roles, represented by
|
||||
things ansible called tasks. At the basic level, a task is nothing more than a call
|
||||
to an ansible module, which you should have learned about in earlier chapters.</p>
|
||||
<p>By composing a playbook of multiple ‘plays’, it is possible to
|
||||
orchestrate multi-machine deployments, running certain steps on all
|
||||
machines in the webservers group, then certain steps on the database
|
||||
server group, then more commands back on the webservers group, etc.</p>
|
||||
<p>For starters, here’s a playbook that contains just one play:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: webservers
|
||||
vars:
|
||||
http_port: 80
|
||||
max_clients: 200
|
||||
user: root
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
- name: ensure apache is at the latest version
|
||||
action: yum pkg=httpd state=latest
|
||||
- name: write the apache config file
|
||||
action: template src=/srv/httpd.j2 dest=/etc/httpd.conf
|
||||
notify:
|
||||
- restart apache
|
||||
- name: ensure apache is running
|
||||
action: service name=httpd state=started
|
||||
handlers:
|
||||
- name: restart apache
|
||||
action: service name=httpd state=restarted</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Below, we’ll break down what the various features of the playbook language are.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="basics">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Basics</a><a class="headerlink" href="#basics" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="hosts-and-users">
|
||||
<h3>Hosts and Users<a class="headerlink" href="#hosts-and-users" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>For each play in a playbook, you get to choose which machines in your infrastructure
|
||||
to target and what remote user to complete the steps (called tasks) as.</p>
|
||||
<p>The <cite>hosts</cite> line is a list of one or more groups or host patterns,
|
||||
separated by colons, as described in the <a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html#patterns"><em>Inventory & Patterns</em></a>
|
||||
documentation. The <cite>user</cite> is just the name of the user account:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: webservers
|
||||
user: root</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Support for running things from sudo is also available:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: webservers
|
||||
user: yourname
|
||||
sudo: True</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>You can also login as you, and then sudo to different users than root:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: webservers
|
||||
user: yourname
|
||||
sudo: True
|
||||
sudo_user: postgres</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>If you need to specify a password to sudo, run <cite>ansible-playbook</cite> with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--ask-sudo-pass</span></tt> (<cite>-K</cite>).
|
||||
If you run a sudo playbook and the playbook seems to hang, it’s probably stuck at the sudo prompt.
|
||||
Just <cite>Control-C</cite> to kill it and run it again with <cite>-K</cite>.</p>
|
||||
<div class="admonition important">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Important</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">When using <cite>sudo_user</cite> to a user other than root, the module
|
||||
arguments are briefly written into a random tempfile in /tmp.
|
||||
These are deleted immediately after the command is executed. This
|
||||
only occurs when sudoing from a user like ‘bob’ to ‘timmy’, not
|
||||
when going from ‘bob’ to ‘root’, or logging in directly as ‘bob’ or
|
||||
‘root’. If this concerns you that this data is briefly readable
|
||||
(not writeable), avoid transferring uncrypted passwords with
|
||||
<cite>sudo_user</cite> set. In other cases, ‘/tmp’ is not used and this does
|
||||
not come into play. Ansible also takes care to not log password
|
||||
parameters.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="vars-section">
|
||||
<h3>Vars section<a class="headerlink" href="#vars-section" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>The <cite>vars</cite> section contains a list of variables and values that can be used in the plays, like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: webservers
|
||||
user: root
|
||||
vars:
|
||||
http_port: 80
|
||||
van_halen_port: 5150
|
||||
other: 'magic'</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>These variables can be used later in the playbook like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>$varname or ${varname}</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>The later is useful in the event you need to do something like ${other}_some_string.</p>
|
||||
<p>Inside templates, the full power of the <a class="reference external" href="http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/">Jinja2</a> templating language is also available, which looks like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>{{ varname }}</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>The Jinja2 documentation provides information about how to construct loops and conditionals for those
|
||||
who which to use more advanced templating. This is optional and the $varname format still works in template
|
||||
files.</p>
|
||||
<p>If there are discovered variables about the system, called ‘facts’, these variables bubble up back into the
|
||||
playbook, and can be used on each system just like explicitly set variables. Ansible provides several
|
||||
of these, prefixed with ‘ansible’, and are documented under ‘setup’ in the module documentation. Additionally,
|
||||
facts can be gathered by ohai and facter if they are installed. Facter variables are prefixed with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">facter_</span></tt> and Ohai
|
||||
variables are prefixed with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ohai_</span></tt>.</p>
|
||||
<p>So for instance, if I wanted
|
||||
to write the hostname into the /etc/motd file, I could say:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: write the motd
|
||||
action: template src=/srv/templates/motd.j2 dest=/etc/motd</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>And in /srv/templates/motd.j2:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>You are logged into {{ facter_hostname }}</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s talk about tasks.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="tasks-list">
|
||||
<h3>Tasks list<a class="headerlink" href="#tasks-list" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
|
||||
<p>Each play contains a list of tasks. Tasks are executed in order, one
|
||||
at a time, against all machines matched by the host pattern,
|
||||
before moving on to the next task. It is important to understand that, within a play,
|
||||
all hosts are going to get the same task directives. It is the purpose of a play to map
|
||||
a selection of hosts to tasks.</p>
|
||||
<p>When running the playbook, which runs top to bottom, hosts with failed tasks are
|
||||
taken out of the rotation for the entire playbook. If things fail, simply correct the playbook file and rerun.</p>
|
||||
<p>The goal of each task is to execute a module, with very specific arguments.
|
||||
Variables, as mentioned above, can be used in arguments to modules.</p>
|
||||
<p>Modules are ‘idempotent’, meaning if you run them
|
||||
again, they will make the changes they are told to make to bring the
|
||||
system to the desired state. This makes it very safe to rerun
|
||||
the same playbook multiple times. They won’t change things
|
||||
unless they have to change things.</p>
|
||||
<p>The <cite>command</cite> and <cite>shell</cite> modules will typically rerun the same command again,
|
||||
which is totally ok if the command is something like
|
||||
‘chmod’ or ‘setsebool’, etc. Though there is a ‘creates’ flag available which can
|
||||
be used to make these modules also idempotent.</p>
|
||||
<p>Every task should have a <cite>name</cite>, which is included in the output from
|
||||
running the playbook. This is output for humans, so it is
|
||||
nice to have reasonably good descriptions of each task step. If the name
|
||||
is not provided though, the string fed to ‘action’ will be used for
|
||||
output.</p>
|
||||
<p>Here is what a basic task looks like, as with most modules,
|
||||
the service module takes key=value arguments:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>tasks:
|
||||
- name: make sure apache is running
|
||||
action: service name=httpd state=running</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>The <cite>command</cite> and <cite>shell</cite> modules are the one modules that just takes a list
|
||||
of arguments, and don’t use the key=value form. This makes
|
||||
them work just like you would expect. Simple:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>tasks:
|
||||
- name: disable selinux
|
||||
action: command /sbin/setenforce 0</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>The command and shell module care about return codes, so if you have a command
|
||||
who’s successful exit code is not zero, you may wish to do this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>tasks:
|
||||
- name: run this command and ignore the result
|
||||
action: shell /usr/bin/somecommand & /bin/true</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Variables can be used in action lines. Suppose you defined
|
||||
a variable called ‘vhost’ in the ‘vars’ section, you could do this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>tasks:
|
||||
- name: create a virtual host file for $vhost
|
||||
action: template src=somefile.j2 dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/$vhost</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Those same variables are usable in templates, which we’ll get to later.</p>
|
||||
<p>Now in a very basic playbook all the tasks will be listed directly in that play, though it will usually
|
||||
make more sense to break up tasks using the ‘include:’ directive. We’ll show that a bit later.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="running-operations-on-change">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Running Operations On Change</a><a class="headerlink" href="#running-operations-on-change" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>As we’ve mentioned, modules are written to be ‘idempotent’ and can relay when
|
||||
they have made a change on the remote system. Playbooks recognize this and
|
||||
have a basic event system that can be used to respond to change.</p>
|
||||
<p>These ‘notify’ actions are triggered at the end of each ‘play’ in a playbook, and
|
||||
trigger only once each. For instance, multiple resources may indicate
|
||||
that apache needs to be restarted, but apache will only be bounced once.</p>
|
||||
<p>Here’s an example of restarting two services when the contents of a file
|
||||
change, but only if the file changes:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: template configuration file
|
||||
action: template src=template.j2 dest=/etc/foo.conf
|
||||
notify:
|
||||
- restart memcached
|
||||
- restart apache</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>The things listed in the ‘notify’ section of a task are called
|
||||
handlers.</p>
|
||||
<p>Handlers are lists of tasks, not really any different from regular
|
||||
tasks, that are referenced by name. Handlers are what notifiers
|
||||
notify. If nothing notifies a handler, it will not run. Regardless
|
||||
of how many things notify a handler, it will run only once, after all
|
||||
of the tasks complete in a particular play.</p>
|
||||
<p>Here’s an example handlers section:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>handlers:
|
||||
- name: restart memcached
|
||||
action: service name=memcached state=restarted
|
||||
- name: restart apache
|
||||
action: service name=apache state=restarted</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Handlers are best used to restart services and trigger reboots. You probably
|
||||
won’t need them for much else.</p>
|
||||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">Notify handlers are always run in the order written.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="include-files-and-encouraging-reuse">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Include Files And Encouraging Reuse</a><a class="headerlink" href="#include-files-and-encouraging-reuse" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Suppose you want to reuse lists of tasks between plays or playbooks. You can use
|
||||
include files to do this. Use of included task lists is a great way to define a role
|
||||
that system is going to fulfill. Remember, the goal of a play in a playbook is to map
|
||||
a group of systems into multiple roles. Let’s see what this looks like...</p>
|
||||
<p>A task include file simply contains a flat list of tasks, like so:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
# possibly saved as tasks/foo.yml
|
||||
- name: placeholder foo
|
||||
action: command /bin/foo
|
||||
- name: placeholder bar
|
||||
action: command /bin/bar</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Include directives look like this, and can be mixed in with regular tasks in a playbook:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>tasks:
|
||||
- include: tasks/foo.yml</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>You can also pass variables into includes. We call this a ‘parameterized include’.</p>
|
||||
<p>For instance, if deploying multiple wordpress instances, I could
|
||||
contain all of my wordpress tasks in a single wordpress.yml file, and use it like so:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>tasks:
|
||||
- include: wordpress.yml user=timmy
|
||||
- include: wordpress.yml user=alice
|
||||
- include: wordpress.yml user=bob</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Variables passed in can then be used in the included files. You can reference them like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>$user</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>(In addition to the explicitly passed in parameters, all variables from
|
||||
the vars section are also available for use here as well.)</p>
|
||||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">Task include statements are only usable one-level deep.
|
||||
This means task includes can not include other
|
||||
task includes. This may change in a later release.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Includes can also be used in the ‘handlers’ section, for instance, if you
|
||||
want to define how to restart apache, you only have to do that once for all
|
||||
of your playbooks. You might make a handlers.yml that looks like:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>----
|
||||
# this might be in a file like handlers/handlers.yml
|
||||
- name: restart apache
|
||||
action: service name=apache state=restarted</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>And in your main playbook file, just include it like so, at the bottom
|
||||
of a play:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>handlers:
|
||||
- include: handlers/handlers.yml</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>You can mix in includes along with your regular non-included tasks and handlers.</p>
|
||||
<p>Includes can also be used to import one playbook file into another. This allows
|
||||
you to define a top-level playbook that is composed of other playbooks.</p>
|
||||
<p>For example:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: this is a play at the top level of a file
|
||||
hosts: all
|
||||
user: root
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
- name: say hi
|
||||
tags: foo
|
||||
action: shell echo "hi..."
|
||||
|
||||
- include: load_balancers.yml
|
||||
- include: webservers.yml
|
||||
- include: dbservers.yml</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Note that you cannot do variable substitution when including one playbook
|
||||
inside another.</p>
|
||||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">You can not conditionally path the location to an include file,
|
||||
like you can with ‘vars_files’. If you find yourself needing to do
|
||||
this, consider how you can restructure your playbook to be more
|
||||
class/role oriented. This is to say you cannot use a ‘fact’ to
|
||||
decide what include file to use. All hosts contained within the
|
||||
play are going to get the same tasks. (‘only_if’ provides some
|
||||
ability for hosts to conditionally skip tasks).</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="executing-a-playbook">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Executing A Playbook</a><a class="headerlink" href="#executing-a-playbook" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Now that you’ve learned playbook syntax, how do you run a playbook? It’s simple.
|
||||
Let’s run a playbook using a parallelism level of 10:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible-playbook playbook.yml -f 10</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="tips-and-tricks">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Tips and Tricks</a><a class="headerlink" href="#tips-and-tricks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Look at the bottom of the playbook execution for a summary of the nodes that were executed
|
||||
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Advanced Playbooks</a><a class="headerlink" href="#advanced-playbooks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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|
||||
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|
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|
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|
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
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|
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|
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|
||||
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|
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|
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|
||||
<p><em>groups</em> is a list of all the groups (and hosts) in the inventory. This can be used to enumerate all hosts within a group.
|
||||
For example:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>{% for host in groups['app_servers'] %}
|
||||
# something that applies to all app servers.
|
||||
{% endfor %}</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Use cases include pointing a frontend proxy server to all of the app servers, setting up the correct firewall rules between servers, etc.</p>
|
||||
<p><em>inventory_hostname</em> is the name of the hostname as configured in Ansible’s inventory host file. This can
|
||||
be useful for when you don’t want to rely on the discovered hostname <cite>ansible_hostname</cite> or for other mysterious
|
||||
reasons. If you have a long FQDN, <em>inventory_hostname_short</em> (in Ansible 0.6) also contains the part up to the first
|
||||
period.</p>
|
||||
<p>Don’t worry about any of this unless you think you need it. You’ll know when you do.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="variable-file-seperation">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Variable File Seperation</a><a class="headerlink" href="#variable-file-seperation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>It’s a great idea to keep your playbooks under source control, but
|
||||
you may wish to make the playbook source public while keeping certain
|
||||
important variables private. Similarly, sometimes you may just
|
||||
want to keep certain information in different files, away from
|
||||
the main playbook.</p>
|
||||
<p>You can do this by using an external variables file, or files, just like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: all
|
||||
user: root
|
||||
vars:
|
||||
favcolor: blue
|
||||
vars_files:
|
||||
- /vars/external_vars.yml
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
- name: this is just a placeholder
|
||||
action: command /bin/echo foo</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>This removes the risk of sharing sensitive data with others when
|
||||
sharing your playbook source with them.</p>
|
||||
<p>The contents of each variables file is a simple YAML dictionary, like this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
# in the above example, this would be vars/external_vars.yml
|
||||
somevar: somevalue
|
||||
password: magic</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">It’s also possible to keep per-host and per-group variables in very
|
||||
similar files, this is covered in <a class="reference internal" href="patterns.html#patterns"><em>Inventory & Patterns</em></a>.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="prompting-for-sensitive-data">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Prompting For Sensitive Data</a><a class="headerlink" href="#prompting-for-sensitive-data" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>You may wish to prompt the user for certain input, and can
|
||||
do so with the similarly named ‘vars_prompt’ section. This has uses
|
||||
beyond security, for instance, you may use the same playbook for all
|
||||
software releases and would prompt for a particular release version
|
||||
in a push-script:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: all
|
||||
user: root
|
||||
vars:
|
||||
from: "camelot"
|
||||
vars_prompt:
|
||||
name: "what is your name?"
|
||||
quest: "what is your quest?"
|
||||
favcolor: "what is your favorite color?"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>There are full examples of both of these items in the github examples/playbooks directory.</p>
|
||||
<p>An alternative form of vars_prompt allows for hiding input from the user, and may later support
|
||||
some other options, but otherwise works equivalently:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>vars_prompt:
|
||||
- name: "some_password"
|
||||
prompt: "Enter password"
|
||||
private: True
|
||||
- name: "release_version"
|
||||
prompt: "Product release version"
|
||||
private: False</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="passing-variables-on-the-command-line">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Passing Variables On The Command Line</a><a class="headerlink" href="#passing-variables-on-the-command-line" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>In addition to <cite>vars_prompt</cite> and <cite>vars_files</cite>, it is possible to send variables over
|
||||
the ansible command line. This is particularly useful when writing a generic release playbook
|
||||
where you may want to pass in the version of the application to deploy:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible-playbook release.yml --extra-vars "version=1.23.45 other_variable=foo"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>This is useful, for, among other things, setting the hosts group or the user for the playbook.</p>
|
||||
<p>Example:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>-----
|
||||
- user: $user
|
||||
hosts: $hosts
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
- ...
|
||||
|
||||
ansible-playbook release.yml --extra-vars "hosts=vipers user=starbuck"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="conditional-execution">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Conditional Execution</a><a class="headerlink" href="#conditional-execution" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Sometimes you will want to skip a particular step on a particular host. This could be something
|
||||
as simple as not installing a certain package if the operating system is a particular version,
|
||||
or it could be something like performing some cleanup steps if a filesystem is getting full.</p>
|
||||
<p>This is easy to do in Ansible, with the <cite>only_if</cite> clause, which actually is a Python expression.
|
||||
Don’t panic – it’s actually pretty simple:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>vars:
|
||||
favcolor: blue
|
||||
is_favcolor_blue: "'$favcolor' == 'blue'"
|
||||
is_centos: "'$facter_operatingsystem' == 'CentOS'"
|
||||
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
- name: "shutdown if my favorite color is blue"
|
||||
action: command /sbin/shutdown -t now
|
||||
only_if: '$is_favcolor_blue'</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Variables from tools like <cite>facter</cite> and <cite>ohai</cite> can be used here, if installed, or you can
|
||||
use variables that bubble up from ansible, which many are provided by the <a class="reference internal" href="modules.html#setup"><em>setup</em></a> module. As a reminder,
|
||||
these variables are prefixed, so it’s <cite>$facter_operatingsystem</cite>, not <cite>$operatingsystem</cite>. Ansible’s
|
||||
built in variables are prefixed with <cite>ansible_</cite>.</p>
|
||||
<p>The only_if expression is actually a tiny small bit of Python, so be sure to quote variables and make something
|
||||
that evaluates to <cite>True</cite> or <cite>False</cite>. It is a good idea to use ‘vars_files’ instead of ‘vars’ to define
|
||||
all of your conditional expressions in a way that makes them very easy to reuse between plays
|
||||
and playbooks.</p>
|
||||
<p>You cannot use live checks here, like ‘os.path.exists’, so don’t try.</p>
|
||||
<p>It’s also easy to provide your own facts if you want, which is covered in <a class="reference internal" href="moduledev.html"><em>Module Development</em></a>. To run them, just
|
||||
make a call to your own custom fact gathering module at the top of your list of tasks, and variables returned
|
||||
there will be accessible to future tasks:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>tasks:
|
||||
- name: gather site specific fact data
|
||||
action: site_facts
|
||||
- action: command echo ${my_custom_fact_can_be_used_now}</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="conditional-imports">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Conditional Imports</a><a class="headerlink" href="#conditional-imports" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Sometimes you will want to do certain things differently in a playbook based on certain criteria.
|
||||
Having one playbook that works on multiple platforms and OS versions is a good example.</p>
|
||||
<p>As an example, the name of the Apache package may be different between CentOS and Debian,
|
||||
but it is easily handled with a minimum of syntax in an Ansible Playbook:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: all
|
||||
user: root
|
||||
vars_files:
|
||||
- "vars/common.yml"
|
||||
- [ "vars/$facter_operatingsystem.yml", "vars/os_defaults.yml" ]
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
- name: make sure apache is running
|
||||
action: service name=$apache state=running</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">The variable (<cite>$facter_operatingsystem</cite>) is being interpolated into
|
||||
the list of filenames being defined for vars_files.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>As a reminder, the various YAML files contain just keys and values:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
# for vars/CentOS.yml
|
||||
apache: httpd
|
||||
somethingelse: 42</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>How does this work? If the operating system was ‘CentOS’, the first file Ansible would try to import
|
||||
would be ‘vars/CentOS.yml’, followed up by ‘/vars/os_defaults.yml’ if that file
|
||||
did not exist. If no files in the list were found, an error would be raised.
|
||||
On Debian, it would instead first look towards ‘vars/Debian.yml’ instead of ‘vars/CentOS.yml’, before
|
||||
falling back on ‘vars/os_defaults.yml’. Pretty simple.</p>
|
||||
<p>To use this conditional import feature, you’ll need facter or ohai installed prior to running the playbook, but
|
||||
you can of course push this out with Ansible if you like:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre># for facter
|
||||
ansible -m yum -a "pkg=facter ensure=installed"
|
||||
ansible -m yum -a "pkg=ruby-json ensure=installed"
|
||||
|
||||
# for ohai
|
||||
ansible -m yum -a "pkg=ohai ensure=installed"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Ansible’s approach to configuration – seperating variables from tasks, keeps your playbooks
|
||||
from turning into arbitrary code with ugly nested ifs, conditionals, and so on - and results
|
||||
in more streamlined & auditable configuration rules – especially because there are a
|
||||
minimum of decision points to track.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="loops">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Loops</a><a class="headerlink" href="#loops" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>To save some typing, repeated tasks can be written in short-hand like so:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: add user $item
|
||||
action: user name=$item state=present groups=wheel
|
||||
with_items:
|
||||
- testuser1
|
||||
- testuser2</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>If you have defined a YAML list in a variables file, or the ‘vars’ section, you can also do:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>with_items: $somelist</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>The above would be the equivalent of:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: add user testuser1
|
||||
action: user name=testuser1 state=present groups=wheel
|
||||
- name: add user testuser2
|
||||
action: user name=testuser2 state=present groups=wheel</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>The yum and apt modules use with_items to execute fewer package manager transactions.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="selecting-files-and-templates-based-on-variables">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Selecting Files And Templates Based On Variables</a><a class="headerlink" href="#selecting-files-and-templates-based-on-variables" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>Sometimes a configuration file you want to copy, or a template you will use may depend on a variable.
|
||||
The following construct selects the first available file appropriate for the variables of a given host,
|
||||
which is often much cleaner than putting a lot of if conditionals in a template.</p>
|
||||
<p>The following example shows how to template out a configuration file that was very different between, say,
|
||||
CentOS and Debian:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: template a file
|
||||
action: template src=$item dest=/etc/myapp/foo.conf
|
||||
first_available_file:
|
||||
- /srv/templates/myapp/${ansible_distribution}.conf
|
||||
- /srv/templates/myapp/default.conf</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="asynchronous-actions-and-polling">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Asynchronous Actions and Polling</a><a class="headerlink" href="#asynchronous-actions-and-polling" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>By default tasks in playbooks block, meaning the connections stay open
|
||||
until the task is done on each node. If executing playbooks with
|
||||
a small parallelism value (aka <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--forks</span></tt>), you may wish that long
|
||||
running operations can go faster. The easiest way to do this is
|
||||
to kick them off all at once and then poll until they are done.</p>
|
||||
<p>You will also want to use asynchronous mode on very long running
|
||||
operations that might be subject to timeout.</p>
|
||||
<p>To launch a task asynchronously, specify its maximum runtime
|
||||
and how frequently you would like to poll for status. The default
|
||||
poll value is 10 seconds if you do not specify a value for <cite>poll</cite>:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: all
|
||||
user: root
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
- name: simulate long running op (15 sec), wait for up to 45, poll every 5
|
||||
action: command /bin/sleep 15
|
||||
async: 45
|
||||
poll: 5</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">There is no default for the async time limit. If you leave off the
|
||||
‘async’ keyword, the task runs synchronously, which is Ansible’s
|
||||
default.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Alternatively, if you do not need to wait on the task to complete, you may
|
||||
“fire and forget” by specifying a poll value of 0:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: all
|
||||
user: root
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
- name: simulate long running op, allow to run for 45, fire and forget
|
||||
action: command /bin/sleep 15
|
||||
async: 45
|
||||
poll: 0</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">You shouldn’t “fire and forget” with operations that require
|
||||
exclusive locks, such as yum transactions, if you expect to run other
|
||||
commands later in the playbook against those same resources.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="admonition note">
|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
|
||||
<p class="last">Using a higher value for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--forks</span></tt> will result in kicking off asynchronous
|
||||
tasks even faster. This also increases the efficiency of polling.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="local-playbooks">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Local Playbooks</a><a class="headerlink" href="#local-playbooks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>It may be useful to use a playbook locally, rather than by connecting over SSH. This can be useful
|
||||
for assuring the configuration of a system by putting a playbook on a crontab. This may also be used
|
||||
to run a playbook inside a OS installer, such as an Anaconda kickstart.</p>
|
||||
<p>To run an entire playbook locally, just set the “hosts:” line to “hosts:127.0.0.1” and then run the playbook like so:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ansible-playbook playbook.yml --connection=local</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>Alternatively, a local connection can be used in a single playbook play, even if other plays in the playbook
|
||||
use the default remote connection type:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>hosts: 127.0.0.1
|
||||
connection: local</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="turning-off-facts">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Turning Off Facts</a><a class="headerlink" href="#turning-off-facts" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>If you know you don’t need any fact data about your hosts, and know everything about your systems centrally, you
|
||||
can turn off fact gathering. This has advantages in scaling ansible in push mode with very large numbers of
|
||||
systems, mainly, or if you are using Ansible on experimental platforms. In any play, just do this:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- hosts: whatever
|
||||
gather_facts: False</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="pull-mode-playbooks">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Pull-Mode Playbooks</a><a class="headerlink" href="#pull-mode-playbooks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p>The use of playbooks in local mode (above) is made extremely powerful with the addition of <cite>ansible-pull</cite>.
|
||||
A script for setting up ansible-pull is provided in the examples/playbooks directory of the source
|
||||
checkout.</p>
|
||||
<p>The basic idea is to use Ansible to set up a remote copy of ansible on each managed node, each set to run via
|
||||
cron and update playbook source via git. This interverts the default push architecture of ansible into a pull
|
||||
architecture, which has near-limitless scaling potential. The setup playbook can be tuned to change
|
||||
the cron frequency, logging locations, and parameters to ansible-pull.</p>
|
||||
<p>This is useful both for extreme scale-out as well as periodic remediation. Usage of the ‘fetch’ module to retrieve
|
||||
logs from ansible-pull runs would be an excellent way to gather and analyze remote logs from ansible-pull.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="register-variables">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Register Variables</a><a class="headerlink" href="#register-variables" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p class="versionadded">
|
||||
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 0.7.</span></p>
|
||||
<p>Often in a playbook it may be useful to store the result of a given command in a variable and access
|
||||
it later. Use of the command module in this way can in many ways eliminate the need to write site specific facts, for
|
||||
instance, you could test for the existance of a particular program.</p>
|
||||
<p>The ‘register’ keyword decides what variable to save a result in. The resulting variables can be used in templates, action lines, or only_if statements. It looks like this (in an obviously trivial example):</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: test play
|
||||
hosts: all
|
||||
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
|
||||
- action: shell cat /etc/motd
|
||||
register: motd_contents
|
||||
|
||||
- action: shell echo "motd contains the word hi"
|
||||
only_if: "'${motd_contents.stdout}'.find('hi') != -1"</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="rolling-updates">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Rolling Updates</a><a class="headerlink" href="#rolling-updates" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p class="versionadded">
|
||||
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 0.7.</span></p>
|
||||
<p>By default ansible will try to manage all of the machines referenced in a play in parallel. For a rolling updates
|
||||
use case, you can define how many hosts ansible should manage at a single time by using the ‘’serial’’ keyword:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: test play
|
||||
hosts: webservers
|
||||
serial: 3</pre>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<p>In the above example, if we had 100 hosts, 3 hosts in the group ‘webservers’
|
||||
would complete the play completely before moving on to the next 3 hosts.</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
<div class="section" id="delegation">
|
||||
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#contents">Delegation</a><a class="headerlink" href="#delegation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
|
||||
<p class="versionadded">
|
||||
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 0.7.</span></p>
|
||||
<p>If you want to perform a task on one host with reference to other hosts, use the ‘delegate_to’ keyword on a task.
|
||||
This is ideal for placing nodes in a load balanced pool, or removing them. It is also very useful for controlling
|
||||
outage windows. Using this with the ‘serial’ keyword to control the number of hosts executing at one time is also
|
||||
a good idea:</p>
|
||||
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>---
|
||||
- hosts: webservers
|
||||
serial: 5
|
||||
|
||||
tasks:
|
||||
- name: take out of load balancer pool
|
||||
action: command /usr/bin/take_out_of_pool $inventory_hostname
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<h1>Ansible Documentation</h1>
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<h1>Who Uses Ansible<a class="headerlink" href="#who-uses-ansible" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p>Ansible is used by all sorts of organizations from hosted web applications, media companies, universities, consultancies, and ISVs – all over the world. Some of these users include:</p>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.altalang.com">Alta Language Services</a></td>
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<td>Language testing, solutions, and translation services</td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://basho.com">Basho</a></td>
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<td>Makers of NoSQL key-value store Riak</td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://catn.com">CatN Hosting</a></td>
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<td>Scalable Cloud Hosting</td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://cygate.se">Cygate AB</a></td>
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<td>IT solutions from Malmö, Sweden</td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://dagit.net">Dag IT Solutions</a></td>
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<td>“Enterprise Linux and Beyond”</td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://duke.edu">Duke University Economics</a></td>
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<td>Research and Education</td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://fedoraproject.org">The Fedora Project</a></td>
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<td>Produces the popular Linux distribution</td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://fourkitchens.com">Four Kitchens</a></td>
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<td>“The Drupal Experts”</td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://lizenzfrei.at/">Lizenzfrei</a></td>
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<td>Open source consulting and development, Austria</td>
|
||||
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||||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.schmoozecom.com/">Schmooze Com</a></td>
|
||||
<td>Creators of Industry-Leading PBX Platforms</td>
|
||||
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<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.grid.auth.gr/en/">Scientific Computing Center, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki</a></td>
|
||||
<td>Grid/Cloud-Based Scientific Computing</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://skylin.es">Skyline.es</a></td>
|
||||
<td>Realtime Photo Search Engine</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://steelhouse.com">Steelhouse</a></td>
|
||||
<td>Behavioral Commerce</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.t-f-t.net/">Tomorrow Focus Technologies GmbH</a></td>
|
||||
<td>Running some of the biggest web sites in Europe</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://123i.com.br">123i.com.br</a></td>
|
||||
<td>Find real estate in Brazil</td>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<p>and lots of other people (you should see our Google Analytics data). Tweet at <a class="reference external" href="http://twitter.com/laserllama">Michael DeHaan</a> or <a class="reference external" href="mailto:michael.dehaan%40gmail.com">email him</a> to get your company or project listed here. (It’s free!)</p>
|
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|
||||
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
|
||||
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||||
<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/ansible-project">Mailing List</a></dt>
|
||||
<dd>Several hundred of our closest friends, great for Q&A</dd>
|
||||
<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a></dt>
|
||||
<dd>#ansible IRC chat channel</dd>
|
||||
<dt><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/graphs/contributors">List of Github Contributors</a></dt>
|
||||
<dd>all the awesome folks who have contributed improvements to Ansible</dd>
|
||||
<dt><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/graphs/impact">Github Impact Graphs</a></dt>
|
||||
<dd>week-to-week source code activity, by contributor</dd>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
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|
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