Description

Ansible is used for configuration management. It's very easy and can save you a lot of time. Here are some snippets I use for my configuration.

Facts

Getting all the facts of a server.

ansible -i config/hosts server -m setup

Get all locally defined variables for a server

ansible -i <inventory> <hostname> -m debug -a "var=hostvars[inventory_hostname]"

Install a package

- name: Install Postgres SQL server
  package:
    name: postgresql96-server
    state: latest
  tags: postgres,postgres_install

Make a directory

- name: Creates directory
  file:
    path: /path/www
    state: directory
    owner: www-data
    group: www-data
    mode: 0775
    recurse: yes