Ansible is a configuration management tool that allows you to configure and manage other machines remotely. What makes it unique from other configuration management software like Chef or Puppet:

• It uses existing SSH infrastructure
• No needs for dedicated server, even your laptop can manage 100s of machine
• Easy to get started with it
• It uses "Facts", gathers information about system and environment before running the tasks
• Ansible Tasks are idempotent

You need the install the following software on your machine:

1 - Vitualbox

2 - Vagrant

git clone https://gitlab.com/mastour-anas/ansible101.git
cd ansible101

This training already contains a Vagrantfile to get you up and running. Note that you do not need to download any "box" manually. Just run this command and it will get everything for you that you need to perform this training.

vagrant up

It will bring up the control machine (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) and perform the following actions on it:

• Add the latest Ansible repository
• Add the insecure RSA key that will be used for client machines
• Add some additional SSH config

Once your machine is up and running, login to the control machine using the following command:

vagrant ssh

There are four other machines, which will be used as clients for practice, on which we'll perform the configuration using ansible from control machine, given them the named

• web1
• web2
• database
• loadbalancing

To start these machines, use the following commands:

vagrant up web1
vagrant up web2
vagrant up database
vagrant up loadbalancing

If something will go wrong, please refer to the Vagrant's Getting Started Guide.

For grammar, spelling mistake etc... please create a PR for the master branch directly.

Thank you!