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Ansible Playbook Practical Guide: From Basics to Large-Scale Cluster Automation Deployment

2026-01-02 by boardor

Ansible Playbook Practical Guide: From Basics to Large-Scale Cluster Automation Deployment Introduction: Why Choose Ansible? In the cloud-native era, manual operations have become the biggest bottleneck limiting team efficiency. When faced with hundreds of servers needing batch deployment, traditional SSH operations on each machine are not only inefficient but also prone to errors. The emergence … Read more

Ansible: From Beginner to Abandonment (Part 23)

2025-12-30 by boardor

Ansible Variable Usage Ansible can improve the efficiency of writing Playbooks through the use of variables. For example, when installing packages with Ansible, you can write the package names into a variable and then call that variable in the Playbook. This way, when you need to modify the packages to be installed, you only need … Read more

From Zero to Expert: A Comprehensive Guide to Ansible Configuration Automation (Includes Complete Project Case)

2025-12-30 by boardor

From Zero to Expert: A Comprehensive Guide to Ansible Configuration Automation (Includes Complete Project Case) 1. Introduction In the modern IT operations environment, configuration management automation has become a key technology for improving efficiency, ensuring consistency, and reducing human errors. Ansible, as an open-source configuration management tool, has become one of the preferred tools for … Read more

Ansible Playbook: Execute Specific Tasks Based on Task Status

2025-12-30 by boardor

Ansible Playbook: Execute Specific Tasks Based on Task Status Using Handlers First, let’s take an example of using Ansible to modify the SSH service configuration file and restart the service. The following Playbook can achieve this functionality: – name: set sshd conf ansible.builtin.lineinfile: path: /etc/ssh/sshd_config backrefs: true regexp: "^#?\\s*PermitRootLogin" line: PermitRootLogin yes – name: restart … Read more

Ansible: From Introduction to Abandonment (Part 21)

2025-12-18 by boardor

Asynchronous Operations Asynchronous operations and polling can be set using <span>async</span> and <span>poll</span>. Ansible Ad-Hoc Asynchronous, Concurrent, and Querying Starting Asynchronous Tasks [root@awx-1 ansible]# ansible localhost -B 3600 -P 5 -a "sleep 30" localhost | CHANGED => { "ansible_job_id": "j445703768934.50473", "changed": true, "cmd": [ "sleep", "30" ], "delta": "0:00:30.003839", "end": "2025-04-21 23:31:02.617454", "finished": 1, "msg": … Read more

Practical Implementation of MySQL Deployment with Ansible

2025-12-13 by boardor

1. Overview of Ansible Ansible is an open-source automation tool for IT operations, created by Michael DeHaan in 2012 and acquired by Red Hat in 2015 for over $100 million. It is developed in Python and manages remote nodes via SSH protocol without the need to install any client agents on the controlled end (Agentless). … Read more

Deploying LNMP with Ansible Playbook

2025-12-10 by boardor

Table of Contents Deploying LNMP with Ansible Playbook Installing Ansible Basic Preparation with Ansible Writing with Playbook Using Variables Environment Introduction: System IP Hostname Service centos8 192.168.222.250 ansible ansible centos8 192.168.222.137 nginx nginx centos8 192.168.222.138 mysql mysql centos8 192.168.222.139 php php nginx-1.22.0mysql-5.7.38php-8.1.11 Installing Ansible Aliyun Official Website // Configure Aliyun Source [root@ansible~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [root@ansible … Read more

Ansible Playbook: Core Elements and Examples

2025-12-02 by boardor

1. Core Elements of a Playbook: hosts List of remote hosts to execute on tasks Set of tasks variables Built-in or custom variables called in the playbook templates Files that can replace variables in template files and implement some simple logic handlers Used in conjunction with notify, triggered by specific conditions, executed if conditions are … Read more