lab02.md

Note: wrap ad-hoc commands in bash

1. Run an ansible add-hoc command to install elinks
2. Create a file "/tmp/hosts.txt" with the OS, IP and Hostname.
   • put it on all hosts
3. Create a playbook to:

• Add donnager.example.com to /etc/hosts set to the ip of the host
• Install httpd and ensure:
  • It is running
  • It will start on boot
  • Set host to donnager.example.com
  • Executed when you run tag webserver
  • Create a site:
    • Added an index.html in /var/www/donnager.example.com/public_html/ with the follow text
      • Welcome to the Martian Marine Web Site
    • Password protect page with the following username and password
      • bobbie - cucUmb3rS4nwitch
• Applied to hosts in group web

Here is a virtualhost to use for the site

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/donnager.example.com/public_html
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/donnager.example.com.error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/donnager.example.com.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

And the default site:

<VirtualHost _default_:*>
    DocumentRoot "/www/default"
</VirtualHost>

4. Set default ansible forks to 20.
5. Set default ansible timeout to 120 seconds.
6. Write a playbook to:

• apply all security updates
• reboot all instances and monitor until they come back up

7. Write a playbook to:

• get the output of rpm -qa
• save the output to /tmp/package-report.txt
• put it on all hosts