Gain insights into installing and using Ansible, delve into playbooks and inventory management, and learn about troubleshooting to efficiently automate IT tasks and enhance your IT career.

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In an era of IT environments, automation is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity. Ansible, an open-source IT automation tool, has become a go-to solution for streamlining IT tasks. This comprehensive course aims to equip you with both fundamental and advanced Ansible knowledge.

You'll start by installing Ansible, understanding its architecture, and diving into inventory management and playbook creation. Next, you'll explore variables, conditional statements, loops, handlers, roles, and collections. After that, the course dives into Ansible for Linux-specific tasks and troubleshooting techniques to resolve common problems like connection failures, missing parameters, and syntax errors. 

After completing this course, you'll have gained a robust understanding of Ansible, with the ability to create efficient playbooks, manage inventory, troubleshoot common problems, and automate a wide range of IT tasks. These skills will provide a strong foundation for a thriving career in IT infrastructure management.

Automating IT Infrastructure with Ansible

# Task

The **Message of the Day (MOTD)** file displays a welcome message to the users when they connect to the system. It is stored under the `/etc/motd` directory.

# Explanation

In this exercise, create a text file named `motd` in the `/etc/` directory using Ansible. To complete the task, you need to perform the following steps:

1. In the `create_file.yml` file, write the play named "exercise".

2. Now, add a task named "creating a text file" and make the necessary changes in the playbook to create the `motd` file in the `/etc/` directory.

3. The `motd` file should contain the following contents:

   - `Example of`
   - `Message of the Day`

4. Add the additional parameters to set the owner, group, and mode of the file:

   - The `owner` is `root`.
   - The `group` is `root`.
   - The `mode` is `0644`.

5. In the `inventory` file, write the statements for the target `localhost`.

After successfully writing the playbook, execute the `create_file.yml` playbook.


If your playbook is executed successfully, you can see the contents of the `motd` file using the command `cat /etc/motd`.

# Playground

Create a Message of the Day file using Ansible.

Getting Started

Ansible Language

Ansible for Linux

Ansible Troubleshooting

Appendix: Ansible Installation

Conclusion

Exercise: Ansible for Linux

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