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Lesson 2 lab solution: Setting up an Ansible-managed environment

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Lesson 2 lab solution: Setting up an Ansible-managed environment

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So, I would like to show you how to set up Ansible in an easy way. We have seen the way how you can set up Ansible using Ansible. That's not the purpose here. The purpose here is to do it as easy as possible. In order to do so, I'm opening two terminal windows and in one of the terminal windows, I'm going to access the manage machine. Which is listening at IP address 156. And there we go. So what is step one? Well, step one is where you are going to to edit ETC hosts. On the control node and on the control node, You need to identify the IP addresses and names of the different machines. So, I'm going to use Control and Ansible 1, which are just short names. Feel free to include some FQDNs if you want to. It's not really necessary. Next, I need to create a user account. So, sudo user add ansible and sudo passwd ansible. I need to set a password for my ansible user, going once and going twice. Right, now that I'm on the control node, I'm going to take care of this user ansible a little…

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