Hello ansible group, I would like to ask you for some advices related with dynamic inventories and variables. I read Dynamic Inventories documentation from asnbile however still don't see clear picture about solution. So far ansible-tower is also not solution which I can focus on.
So quick 'my issue' which looks like 'chicken and egg' problem ;) 1. I would like to use ansible to provision servers. 2. I would like to use ansible to do some small changes on servers (for example add / remote some account etc - depends of dynamic work) 3. I would like to have records about facts (inlcuding local facts) wich can be used for playbooks. 4. I would like to have easy way of reasigning host and different tasks will be run. The way which I see, is that: 1. First initial run of ansible - gathers facts and setup some local facts based on varialbe (role / product / environment (test / dev / etc)) (Know already how to use callback functions and record results to DB). 2. Next runs, reads DB (Dynamic Inventory) and setup servers, updating local facts as well. 3. I can change some 'flag' in Dynamic Inventory and ansible will run different tasks. Expected solution is that: 1. I can quickly see on which status is server, for example: - ENV: Development - web servers - completed, - ENV: Testing - ready for application deplyement. - Prodcution ---- configuration XXX. 2. When I am going to a server I can quickly see in local facts forder what has been done (ini or js file) in terms of configuraiton. My issue is now that we have a lot of INI inventories files and we maintaning quite a lot of servers (250+). Adding new servers in ini file depends of product line, and is a bit of slow, this is why I whould like to have start using dynamic invenotry. However I am not quite sure how to deal with all these variables which we are using. I like to assigning server to some group, then I can use it in tempaltes, etc. And use variables only for some configuration specific details. So I would like to ask you in general: How are you working with ansible day by day when you have to: - manage big number of hosts where configuration is different (not only web server / DB server - but also web servers have different configuration [apache, nginx]) - see what has been already done via ansible on server (wihtout reading YAML files over and over). - Dealing with small tasks to adjust configuration on server (for example php variables must be adjusted, or apache max_clients have to be decrased, etc). - Quickly add / modify server roles and anothers tasks are running. Maybe my thinking is too big / too complacated - any replies are welcome. Best regards, Marcin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/2fd2f7ed-e6b9-4e0c-b5a0-ce663eb88f04%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
