Tag: Adhoc

Run Ansible Adhoc commands or playbook in Local mode

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If you are trying to run Ansible Adhoc commands or playbook in Local mode, these articles will help you.

Ansible can’t run playbooks locally without ssh if ansible_connection=local is defined in the hosts file, although it can run playbooks locally without ssh with connection: local in the playbook or with flag –connection=local.

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ansible 127.0.0.1 -m file -a "dest=/opt/a.txt mode=600 state=touch"
ansible 127.0.0.1 -m file -a "dest=/opt/a.txt mode=600 state=file"

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Inventory file
127.0.0.1 ansible_connection=local
localhost ansible_connection=local

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---

- name: run the playbook tasks on the localhost
hosts: 127.0.0.1
connection: local
become: yes
tasks:

- name: print out the hostname of target
command: hostname

- name: ensure aptitude is installed
command: apt-get -y install aptitude

- name: update the apt package index i.e. apt-get update
apt: update_cache=yes

- name: upgrade system packages i.e. apt-get upgrade
apt: upgrade=yes
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Ansible Adhoc Commands Lab & Excercise – Part 1

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Execution Mode – Local

  1. Write a Ansible Adhoc Commands to create a group called “deploy”

  2. Write a Ansible Adhoc Commands to create a user called “deploy-user” which is part of group called “group” and with /bin/bash shell.

  3. Write a Ansble Adhoc commands install package named “httpd” in RHEL/centos.

  4. Write a Ansible Adhoc commands to start and enable the service named “httpd”

  5. Write a Ansible commands to create a file called “index.html” in /var/www/html with some dummy html contents.

  6. Write a Ansible commands to reboot a self machine.

  7. Write a Ansible commands to install a package called “git”, “wget”.

  8. Write a Ansible Adhoc commands to clone git repo. thttps://github.com/scmgalaxy/ansible-role-template

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