Ansible Part 0 - Set up Environment

What's included in this tutorial?

In this walk through you will set up your own environment (the control host) and a target host in preparation to use ansible.

There are many different ways to set up control and target hosts, so I have explained just a limited range of options to get you started.

You will learn:

• Set up a linux environment on a windows machine using WSL
• How to install ansible on your machine
• Create an Azure VM to act as a target host
• How to setup SSH access to the target from the control host
• How to tear down your target host once you are finished.

Dependencies

• This tutorial assumes you have the following:
  • A windows machine to set up WSL on (if you have a linux machine already then great). If your machine cannot set up WSL but you can access the internet then you could set up a second linux VM to act as your control host.
  • Access to the internet

Tutorial

There are four parts to this tutorial, sections 1-3 should be completed before using Ansible in following tutorials. Section 4 is for removing your target host once you are finished.

Sections:

• 0.1 Configuring your control host
• 0.2 Create a target host - Azure VM
• 0.3 Configure target host
• 0.4 Destroy target host - Azure VM

Now - go and complete sections 0.1 to 0.3 above and you should be ready for the Introduction to Ansible tutorial part 1!