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Ansible tutorial: Adding another Webserver

We have one web server. Now we want two.

Updating the inventory

Since we have big expectations, we'll add another web server and a load balancer we'll configure in the next step. But let's complete the inventory now.

[web]
host1 ansible_host=192.168.33.11 ansible_user=root
host2 ansible_host=192.168.33.12 ansible_user=root

[haproxy]
host0 ansible_host=192.168.33.10 ansible_user=root

Remember we're specifying ansible_host here because the host has a different IP than expected (or can't be resolved). You could add these hosts in your /etc/hosts and not have to worry, or use real host names (which is what you would do in a classic situation).

Building another web server

We didn't go to all this work for nothing. Deploying another web server is dead simple:

$ ansible-playbook -i step-09/hosts step-09/apache.yml

PLAY [web] *********************

GATHERING FACTS *********************
ok: [host2]
ok: [host1]

TASK: [Installs necessary packages] *********************
ok: [host1]
changed: [host2]

TASK: [Push future default virtual host configuration] *********************
ok: [host1]
changed: [host2]

TASK: [Activates our virtualhost] *********************
changed: [host2]
changed: [host1]

TASK: [Check that our config is valid] *********************
changed: [host2]
changed: [host1]

TASK: [Rolling back - Restoring old default virtualhost] *********************
skipping: [host1]
skipping: [host2]

TASK: [Rolling back - Removing out virtualhost] *********************
skipping: [host1]
skipping: [host2]

TASK: [Rolling back - Ending playbook] *********************
skipping: [host1]
skipping: [host2]

TASK: [Deploy our awesome application] *********************
ok: [host1]
changed: [host2]

TASK: [Deactivates the default virtualhost] *********************
changed: [host1]
changed: [host2]

TASK: [Deactivates the default ssl virtualhost] *********************
changed: [host2]
changed: [host1]

RUNNING HANDLER: [restart apache] *********************
changed: [host1]
changed: [host2]

PLAY RECAP *********************
host1              : ok=9   changed=5    unreachable=0    failed=0
host2              : ok=9   changed=8    unreachable=0    failed=0

All we had to do was remove -l host1 from our command line. Remember -l is a switch that limits the playbook run on specific hosts. Now that we don't limit anymore, it will run on all hosts where the playbook is intended to run on (i.e. web).

If we had other servers in group web but wanted to limit the playbook to a subset, we could have used, for instance: -l firsthost:secondhost:....

Now that we have this nice farm of web servers, let's turn it into a cluster by putting a load balancer in front of them in step-10.