OPS435 Sample Ansible Hosts file
Sample Ansible Inventory File
# This is the default ansible 'hosts' file. # # It should live in /etc/ansible/hosts # # - Comments begin with the '#' character # - Blank lines are ignored # - Groups of hosts are delimited by [header] elements # - You can enter hostnames or ip addresses # - A hostname/ip can be a member of multiple groups # Ex 1: Ungrouped hosts, specify before any group headers. ## green.example.com ## blue.example.com ## 192.168.100.1 ## 192.168.100.10 # Ex 2: A collection of hosts belonging to the 'webservers' group ## [webservers] ## alpha.example.org ## beta.example.org ## 192.168.1.100 ## 192.168.1.110 # If you have multiple hosts following a pattern you can specify # them like this: ## www[001:006].example.com # Ex 3: A collection of database servers in the 'dbservers' group ## [dbservers] ## ## db01.intranet.mydomain.net ## db02.intranet.mydomain.net ## 10.25.1.56 ## 10.25.1.57 # Here's another example of host ranges, this time there are no # leading 0s: ## db-[99:101]-node.example.com
Sample template for Ansible hosts file for Lab 9
Assuming Elisa, Miriam, Eric, Stephen, and Joseph are five of the students in the OPS435 class in different sections and each one of them was assign a VM in myvmlab with the following information:
- Section A
- Miriam: port 7694 on myvmlab.senecacollege.ca
- ELisa: port 7697 on myvmlab.senecacollege.ca
- Section B
- Eric: port 7811 on myvmlab.senecacollege.ca
- Stephen:port 7850 on myvmlab.senecacollege.ca
- Joseph: port 7874 on myvmlab.senecacollege.ca
The following Ansible inventory file simple called "hosts" can be created and used for the "ansible" command by a regular user on matrix. You can put this inventory file in ~/ops435/lab9 directory.
# This is a template for creating an inventory for the ansible or # ansible-playbook command in matrix. You need to add your VM # information under the appropriate section: [ops435a], [ops435b], etc. instructor ansible_host=myvmlab.senecacollege.ca ansible_port=7001 [ops435a] miriam ansible_host=myvmlab.senecacollege.ca ansible_port=7694 elisa ansible_host=myvmlab.senecacollege.ca ansible_port=7697 [ops435b] eric ansible_host=myvmlab.senecacollege.ca ansible_port=7811 stephen ansible_host=myvmlab.senecacollege.ca ansible_port=7850 joseph ansible_host=myvmlab.senecacollege.ca ansible_port=7874