Q18. 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’

Q19. Create a role called apache in “/home/admin/ansible/roles” with the following
requirements:
–> The httpd package is installed, enabled on boot, and started.
–> The firewall is enabled and running with a rule to allow access to the web server.
–> template file index.html.j2 is used to create the file /var/www/html/index.html
with the output:
Welcome to HOSTNAME on IPADDRESS
–> Where HOSTNAME is the fqdn of the managed node and IPADDRESS is the IP-Address of
the managed node.
note: you have to create index.html.j2 file.
–> Create a playbook called httpd.yml that uses this role and the playbook runs on
hosts in the webservers host group.

Q20. 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

Q21. Create a playbook called hwreport.yml that produces an output file called /root/
hwreport.txt on all managed nodes with the following information:
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–> Inventory host name
–> Total memory in MB
–> BIOS version
–> Size of disk device vda
–> Size of disk device vdb
Each line of the output file contains a single key-value pair.
* Your playbook should:
–> Download the file hwreport.empty from the URL http://classroom.example.com/
hwreport.empty and
save it as /root/hwreport.txt
–> Modify with the correct values.
note: If a hardware item does not exist, the associated value should be set to NONE
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while practising you to create these file hear. But in exam have to download as per
questation.
hwreport.txt file consists.
my_sys=hostname
my_BIOS=biosversion
my_MEMORY=memory
my_vda=vdasize
my_vdb=vdbsize

Q22. Use Ansible Galaxy with a requirements file called /home/admin/ansible/roles/
install.yml to download and install roles to /home/admin/ansible/roles from the
following URLs:
http:// classroom.example.com /role1.tar.gz The name of this role should be balancer
http:// classroom.example.com /role2.tar.gz The name of this role should be phphello

Q23. 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.

Q24. 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”.

Q25. Create a playbook called packages.yml that:
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–> Installs the php and mariadb packages on hosts in the dev, test, and prod host
groups.
–> Installs the Development Tools package group on hosts in the dev host group.
–> Updates all packages to the latest version on hosts in the dev host group.

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. Create an ansible vault password file called lock.yml with the password reallysafepw in the /home/sandy/ansible directory. In the lock.yml file define two variables. One is pw_dev and the password is ‘dev’ and the other is pw_mgr and the password is ‘mgr’ Create a regular file called secret.txt which contains the password for lock.yml.

Q28. Create an ansible vault password file called lock.yml with the password reallysafepw in the /home/sandy/ansible directory. In the lock.yml file define two variables. One is pw_dev and the password is ‘dev’ and the other is pw_mgr and the password is ‘mgr’ Create a regular file called secret.txt which contains the password for lock.yml.

Q29. Install and configure Ansible on the control-node control.realmX.example.com as
follows:
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–> 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

Q30. Create a playbook called web.yml as follows:
* The playbook runs on managed nodes in the “dev” host group
* Create the directory /webdev with the following requirements:
–> membership in the apache group
–> regular permissions: owner=r+w+execute, group=r+w+execute, other=r+execute
s.p=set group-id
* Symbolically link /var/www/html/webdev to /webdev
* Create the file /webdev/index.html with a single line of text that reads:
“Development”
–> it should be available on http://servera.lab.example.com/webdev/index.html

Q31. 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.

Q32. Create a jinja template in /home/sandy/ansible/ and name it hosts.j2. Edit this file so it looks like the one below. The order of the nodes doesn’t matter. Then create a playbook in /home/sandy/ansible called hosts.yml and install the template on dev node at /root/myhosts

Q33. Modify file content.
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Create a playbook called /home/admin/ansible/modify.yml as follows:
* The playbook runs on all inventory hosts
* The playbook replaces the contents of /etc/issue with a single line of text as
follows:
–> On hosts in the dev host group, the line reads: “Development”
–> On hosts in the test host group, the line reads: “Test”
–> On hosts in the prod host group, the line reads: “Production”

Q34. 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.

Q35. 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”

Q36. 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.