Q18. Create and run an Ansible ad-hoc command.
–> As a system administrator, you will need to install software on the managed
nodes.
–> Create a shell script called yum-pack.sh that runs an Ansible ad-hoc command to
create yum-repository on each of the managed nodes as follows:
–> repository1
———–
1. The name of the repository is EX407
2. The description is “Ex407 Description”
3. The base URL is http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/BaseOS/
4. GPG signature checking is enabled
5. The GPG key URL is http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/RPM-GPG-KEYredhat-
release
6. The repository is enabled
–> repository2
———–
1. The name of the repository is EXX407
2. The description is “Exx407 Description”
3. The base URL is http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/AppStream/
4. GPG signature checking is enabled
5. The GPG key URL is http://content.example.com/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/ RPM-GPG-KEYredhat-
release
6. The repository is enabled

Q19. Create a playbook called regulartasks.yml which has the system that append the date to /root/datefile every day at noon. Name is job ‘datejob’

Q20. Create a file called requirements.yml in /home/sandy/ansible/roles a file called role.yml in /home/sandy/ansible/. The haproxy-role should be used on the proxy host. And when you curl http://node3.example.com it should display “Welcome to node4.example.com” and when you curl again “Welcome to node5.example.com” The php-role should be used on the prod host.

Q21. Create a file called packages.yml in /home/sandy/ansible to install some packages for the following hosts. On dev, prod and webservers install packages httpd, mod_ssl, and mariadb. On dev only install the development tools package. Also, on dev host update all the packages to the latest.

Q22. Create an Ansible vault to store user passwords as follows:
* The name of the vault is valut.yml
* The vault contains two variables as follows:
– dev_pass with value wakennym
– mgr_pass with value rocky
* The password to encrypt and decrypt the vault is atenorth
* The password is stored in the file /home/admin/ansible/password.txt

Q23. Create a playbook /home/bob /ansible/motd.yml that runs on all inventory hosts and docs the following: The playbook should replaee any existing content of/etc/motd in the following text. Use ansible facts to display the FQDN of each host
On hosts in the dev host group the line should be “Welcome to Dev Server FQDN”.
On hosts in the webserver host group the line should be “Welcome to Apache Server FQDN”.
On hosts in the database host group the line should be “Welcome to MySQL Server FQDN”.

Q24. Create an empty encrypted file called myvault.yml in /home/sandy/ansible and set the password to notsafepw. Rekey the password to iwejfj2331.

Q25. Create a role called sample-apache in /home/sandy/ansible/roles that enables and starts httpd, enables and starts the firewall and allows the webserver service. Create a template called index.html.j2 which creates and serves a message from /var/www/html/index.html Whenever the content of the file changes, restart the webserver service.
Welcome to [FQDN] on [IP]
Replace the FQDN with the fully qualified domain name and IP with the ip address of the node using ansible facts. Lastly, create a playbook in /home/sandy/ansible/ called apache.yml and use the role to serve the index file on webserver hosts.

Q26. Install and configure ansible
User bob has been created on your control node. Give him the appropriate permissions on the control node. Install the necessary packages to run ansible on the control node.
Create a configuration file /home/bob/ansible/ansible.cfg to meet the following requirements:
* The roles path should include /home/bob/ansible/roles, as well as any other path that may be required for the course of the sample exam.
* The inventory file path is /home/bob/ansible/inventory.
* Ansible should be able to manage 10 hosts at a single time.
* Ansible should connect to all managed nodes using the bob user.
Create an inventory file for the following five nodes:
nodel.example.com
node2.example.com
node3.example.com
node4.example.com
node5.example.com
Configure these nodes to be in an inventory file where node1 is a member of group dev. nodc2 is a member of group test, nodc3 is a member of group proxy, nodc4 and node 5 are members of group prod. Also, prod is a member of group webservers.

Q27. In /home/sandy/ansible/ create a playbook called logvol.yml. In the play create a logical volume called Iv0 and make it of size 1500MiB on volume group vgO If there is not enough space in the volume group print a message “Not enough space for logical volume” and then make a 800MiB Iv0 instead. If the volume group still doesn’t exist, create a message “Volume group doesn’t exist” Create an xfs filesystem on all Iv0 logical volumes. Don’t mount the logical volume.

Q28. Install and configure ansible
User sandy has been created on your control node with the appropriate permissions already, do not change or modify ssh keys. Install the necessary packages to run ansible on the control node. Configure ansible.cfg to be in folder /home/sandy/ansible/ansible.cfg and configure to access remote machines via the sandy user. All roles should be in the path /home/sandy/ansible/roles. The inventory path should be in /home/sandy/ansible/invenlory.
You will have access to 5 nodes.
node1.example.com
node2.example.com
node3.example.com
node4.example.com
node5.example.com
Configure these nodes to be in an inventory file where node I is a member of group dev. nodc2 is a member of group test, node3 is a member of group proxy, nodc4 and node 5 are members of group prod. Also, prod is a member of group webservers.

Q29. Create a file called adhoc.sh in /home/sandy/ansible which will use adhoc commands to set up a new repository.
The name of the repo will be ‘EPEL’ the description ‘RHEL8’ the baseurl is ‘https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rmp’ there is no gpgcheck, but you should enable the repo.
* You should be able to use an bash script using adhoc commands to enable repos.
Depending on your lab setup, you may need to make this repo “state=absent” after you pass this task.

Q30. Create a file called specs.empty in home/bob/ansible on the local machine as follows:
HOST=
MEMORY=
BIOS=
VDA_DISK_SIZE=
VDB_DISK_SIZE=
Create the playbook /home/bob/ansible/specs.yml which copies specs.empty to all remote nodes’ path /root/specs.txt. Using the specs.yml playbook then edit specs.txt on the remote machines to reflect the appropriate ansible facts.

Q31. Create a playbook called issue.yml in /home/sandy/ansible which changes the file /etc/issue on all managed nodes: If host is a member of (lev then write “Development” If host is a member of test then write “Test” If host is a member of prod then write “Production”

Q32. Create a playbook that changes the default target on all nodes to multi-user tarqet. Do this in playbook file called target.yml in /home/sandy/ansible

Q33. Create a file called requirements.yml in /home/sandy/ansible/roles to install two roles. The source for the first role is geerlingguy.haproxy and geerlingguy.php. Name the first haproxy-role and the second php-role. The roles should be installed in /home/sandy/ansible/roles.

Q34. Create a playbook called balance.yml as follows:
* The playbook contains a play that runs on hosts in balancers host group and uses
the balancer role.
–> This role configures a service to loadbalance webserver requests between hosts
in the webservers host group.curl
–> When implemented, browsing to hosts in the balancers host group (for example
http://node5.example.com) should produce the following output:
Welcome to node3.example.com on 192.168.10.z
–> Reloading the browser should return output from the alternate web server:
Welcome to node4.example.com on 192.168.10.a
* The playbook contains a play that runs on hosts in webservers host group and uses
the phphello role.
–> When implemented, browsing to hosts in the webservers host group with the URL /
hello.php should produce the following output:
Hello PHP World from FQDN
–> where FQDN is the fully qualified domain name of the host. For example,
browsing to http://node3.example.com/hello.php, should produce the following output:
Hello PHP World from node3.example.com
* Similarly, browsing to http://node4.example.com/hello.php, should produce the
following output:
Hello PHP World from node4.example.com

Q35. Install and configure Ansible on the control-node control.realmX.example.com as
follows:
——————————————————————————————-
–> Install the required packages
–> Create a static inventory file called /home/admin/ansible/inventory as follows:
node1.realmX.example.com is a member of the dev host group
node2.realmX.example.com is a member of the test host group
node3.realmX.example.com & node4.realmX.example.com are members of the prod
host group
node5.realmX.example.com is a member of the balancers host group.
prod group is a member of the webservers host group
–> Create a configuration file called ansible.cfg as follows:
–> The host inventory file /home/admin/ansible/inventory is defined
–> The location of roles used in playbooks is defined as /home/admin/ansible/ roles

Q36. Create a playbook called webdev.yml in ‘home/sandy/ansible. The playbook will create a directory Avcbdev on dev host. The permission of the directory are 2755 and owner is webdev. Create a symbolic link from /Webdev to /var/www/html/webdev. Serve a file from Avebdev7index.html which displays the text “Development” Curl http://node1.example.com/webdev/index.html to test

Q37. Create a file called requirements.yml in /home/sandy/ansible/roles a file called role.yml in /home/sandy/ansible/. The haproxy-role should be used on the proxy host. And when you curl http://node3.example.com it should display “Welcome to node4.example.com” and when you curl again “Welcome to node5.example.com” The php-role should be used on the prod host.

Q38. Create a file in /home/sandy/ansible/ called report.yml. Using this playbook, get a file called report.txt (make it look exactly as below). Copy this file over to all remote hosts at /root/report.txt. Then edit the lines in the file to provide the real information of the hosts. If a disk does not exist then write NONE.