In this step we will give the ansible account sudo privileges on our host and use playbooks to deploy and manager servers from an inventory of servers.

Overview:

1. Give sudo permissions to user ansible
2. Set up the variables.yml file
3. Set up up the server.yml file with the information about the servers we want
4. Create jinja templates
5. Create playbook to deploy servers
6. Create playbook to update packages on the servers

From your regular login account all the ansible user to the sudo group. <code>sudo usermod -aG sudo ansible</group>

You can new test sudo access for the user ansible:

• su - ansible
• sudo apt update

For the remainder of the Lab you will be using the ansible user. You may conveniently ssh to your server as user ansible.

Create a new variables.yml file in the home directory (you are the user ansible now, so it's in /home/ansible).

Replace the ssh key with the one you saved earlier. Also as before you need to replaced the bridge_interface_name value with the interface of your host machine.

variables.yml

---
Global:
  bridge_interface_name: "enp8s0"
  username: ansible
  ssh_key: "ssh-rsa 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 autobox@autobox"
  workingdir: "{{ lookup('env','HOME') }}/ubuntu-autoinstall"
  inventory_file: "{{ lookup('env','HOME') }}/inventory"
  vboxmanage_path: /usr/bin/vboxmanage
  ubuntu_iso: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/jammy/daily-live/current/jammy-live-server-amd64.iso
  ubuntu_iso_filename: jammy-live-server-amd64.iso
  new_iso_filename: ubuntu-22.04-autoinstall.iso

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