Intro to Ansible

For this project you will be using ansible to automate setting up and configuring machines / programs.

setup

Install the latest Ubuntu Server LTS on 4 servers.

• One Zabbix + ansible Server
• Two standalone servers
• A showcase server
• don't apply the states until your project check

ansible roles

Create ansible roles for the following

• DNS
• point to the production dns servers
• Keepalived
• create a role to setup a floating ip between your clients
• motd
• set each of your clients to show a different motd on login
• use templates here
• Monitoring

• Install a zabbix client and point it to your zabbix server

  note: configure zabbix that hosts automatically show up in the web UI

  hint: this can be configured on the zabbix server web GUI * Postfix * make it possible for mail to be sent between your linux servers

No passwords should be in plaintext (use vault)

All ansible roles must be written by you (use ansible-galaxy).