Templating is a powerful tool that we can add to our Ansible arsenal, enabling us to set up some interesting configurations quickly. This lab will help us practice with that tool.
*This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Write a Template to Replace the Document Root in httpd.conf and Any Other Configurations Required
Using the provided httpd.template, replace all occurences of /var/www/ with
{{ variable_name}} – similar to the following. This will let us update the directory with the use of a variable:<Directory /> AllowOverride none Require all denied </Directory> DocumentRoot "{{ webdir }}html" <Directory "{{ webdir }}"> AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory>Note that there are more places
/var/wwwneeds to be changed to{{ variable name }}, these are just two.- Write a Playbook to Deploy the Template to the webserver Group
Your playbook should look similar to this:
--- - name: Template playbook hosts: webservers become: yes vars: webdir: '/opt/' tasks: - name: Deploy the web template template: src: /root/httpd.template dest: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
