Installing Ansible on mac

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install ansible --quiet

Examples

Bash Task

This example shows how to invoke ansible via command line.

$ ./list-users-and-jobs.sh
SSH password:
test.example.net | success | rc=0 >>
 23:21:23 up 96 days,  7:15,  1 user,  load average: 0.12, 0.17, 0.44
USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
gulcin.y pts/0    test.example.net 23:20   59.00s  0.04s  0.04s top

Git Playbook

This example provides a simple Ansible playbook. Tasks and handlers in the playbook performs the following:

• first ensures that git is installed
• clones this repo if a workspace does not exist
• updates the workspace if this repo is already cloned
• triggers update message if the workspace is updated.

Example playbook outputs are located under the 02-git-playbook/playbook-output folder.

The playbook is invoked using the command below:

$ cd 02-git-playbook/
$ ansible-playbook main.yml -i hosts.yml -K -k -vvv

Dpkg Comparison Playbook

This example provides a conditional Ansible playbook. Tasks and handlers in the playbook performs the following:

• finds installed python version
• installs python-pip if python version < 2.7.9
• detects if ssl_match_hostname module is installed
• installs ssl_match_hostname package if it is missing

Example playbook outputs are located under the 03-dpkg-comparison-playbook/playbook-output folder.

The playbook is invoked using the command below:

$ cd 03-dpkg-comparison-playbook/
$ ansible-playbook main.yml -i hosts.ini -K -k -vvv