1. Ansible with vCloud Air Workshop
Install, configure and use Ansible on your laptop to provision workloads in vCloud Air

2. Abstract
Learn the basics of Ansible, use this workshop to install, setup and configure Ansible on your laptop. Once you have successfully configured Ansible, then learn how to use it for DevOps deployment into your vCloud Air environments.
Dylan Silva, Sales Engineer, Ansible Inc.
8/31/2015

3. What is Ansible? SIMPLE AGENTLESS POWERFUL Human Readable Automation
No Special Coding Skills Required
Tasks executed in order
Get Productive Quickly
AGENTLESS
No extra code to manage
Uses OpenSSH
No agents to exploit or update
More Efficient and Secure
POWERFUL
App Deployment
Configuration Management
Workflow Orchestration
Orchestrate the app lifecycle

4. Inventory Modules Tasks Plays Playbooks Ansible Components
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5. Inventory
Hosts and Groups
Inventory Sources

6. Inventory-specific data Static / Dynamic Sources
Inventory Concepts
Hosts
Groups
Inventory-specific data
Static / Dynamic Sources
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7. Defines: Port and Address Remote/sudo usernames Connection type
Inventory: Hosts
Defines:
Port and Address
Remote/sudo usernames
Connection type
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8. Inventory: Hosts
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9. Inventory: Hosts
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10. Inventory: Hosts
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11. Modules Bits of code copied to the target system.
Executed to satisfy the task declaration.
Customizable.

12. vca_vapp vca_nat vca_fw apt/yum copy file service template
Modules Examples
vca_vapp
vca_nat
vca_fw
apt/yum
copy
file
service
template
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13. TASKS Directory should exist Package should be installed
Service should be running
Render a template into a configuration file
vCloud Air instance should exist

14. Tasks: Examples
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15. file: path=/opt/cache state=directory - name: install nginx
Using Modules in Tasks
- name: add cache dir
file: path=/opt/cache state=directory
- name: install nginx
yum: name=nginx state=present
- name: start nginx
service: name=nginx enabled=yes state=started state=started
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16. Exercise 1
Install Ansible
Setup key(s)
Run a couple of tasks

17. Plays Play naming Hosts selection Play arguments Variables Tasks
Concurrency and order of operations
Conditionals

18. Play Naming
name: This is a Play
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19. Hosts Selection
name: This is a Play
hosts: web-servers
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20. Play Arguments name: This is a Play hosts: web-servers
remote_user: fred
sudo: yes
connection: ssh
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21. cache_dir: /opt/cache
Variables
name: This is a Play
hosts: web-servers
remote_user: fred
sudo: yes
connection: ssh
vars:
http_port: 80
cache_dir: /opt/cache
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22. Tasks name: This is a Play hosts: web-servers remote_user: fred
sudo: yes
connection: ssh
vars:
http_port: 80
cache_dir: /opt/cache
tasks:
- name: create cache dir
file: path={{ cache_dir }} state=directory
- name: install nginx
yum: name=nginx state=installed
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23. Exercise 2 Download playbooks Make modifications to playbooks
Execute Playbooks against vCloud Air