Ansible Demo Project

A simple project that demonstrates how Ansible works. I did not want to install ansible and python on my host machine, so I tried to do in docker. Be aware of that because some modules in playbooks may not work (e.g. that uses systemctl, because no systemd available inside docker container)

How to run

• Build a docker image with Ansible installed - docker run -t eshishkin/ansible .
• Build a docker image with ssh daemon - docker run -t eshishkin/ssh -f Dockerfile.shh .
• Generate a pair of private/public key and put it into keys/master
• Put the public key into slaves/authorized_keys (change permissions if needed)
• Run compose file - docker-compose up -d
• Connect to container wit Ansible - docker exec -it <container_id> bash (container_id can be taken from output of docker ps)
• Go to opt/ansible/playbooks/ inside the container and do anything you want with Ansible. E.g. ping all available nodes ansible all -m ping -i inventory.yml