A repo that contains labs for use in practicing for the Red Hat ex407 exam. Feel free to contribute. No content from the exam will be accepted, though.
You should complete everything in each lab in just about under an hour (ideally, around 30 minutes). Since the exam is 4 hours, these sessions should give you enough practice to finish all the tasks in the exam while still have time to review and refine.
You should have at least 2 servers to work with - your control station (where you run your ansible commands from) and remote server. I recommend you should at least have 4 instances to work with and then you can setup your inventory as follows (ips are not real, of course):
[database]
10.20.30.40
[web]
10.40.80.120
[bastion]
10.60.120.180
[app]
10.100.200.10
You should have another one for running Ansible Tower as well.
The OS should be running Red Hat 7.3 or whatever is stated in the exam (an equivilent version for CentOS should be acceptable)
NOTE: If you want to practice using a cloud provider, there are many that you can use that are inexpensive, such as Digital Ocean. Feel free to use this link to sign up for an account (as well as support this effort by giving me free credits. :) )
Finally, while it is not stated what editor you be using, I suggest using vim when writing your playbooks. You can use other editors, but if they are not available during the exam, you may have a bad time
The objectives for the EX 407 exam can be found here:
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation exam
Official training is provided by Red Hat:
Inexpensive training can also be found at Linux Academy:
The exam objectives clearly stated that you will be using ansible 2.3. Be prepared to not be able to use commands that are available in the current ansible release. Here are some gotchas and solutions:
include_tasks does not exists in 2.3. Use include statement instead
If you need to apply a tag to an entire role, you may need to do this instead:
roles:
- { role: webserver, port: 5000, tags: [ 'web', 'foo' ] }
See here for more tag info in 2.3
vault-id is not available as a parameter to use. For now, rely on --ask-vault-pass instead.
Given that 2.3 has fairly outdated certificates, you may get an error similar to the following when installing through ansible galaxy:
rocinante:ex407_ansible_specialist_practice_tasks rilindo$ ansible-galaxy install https://github.com/monzell/ansible-lighttpd/archive/v0.1.tar.gz validate_certs=False
- downloading role from https://github.com/monzell/ansible-lighttpd/archive/v0.1.tar.gz
[ERROR]: failed to download the file: Failed to validate the SSL certificate for github.com:443. Make sure your managed
systems have a valid CA certificate installed. You can use validate_certs=False if you do not need to confirm the servers
identity but this is unsafe and not recommended. Paths checked for this platform: /etc/ssl/certs, /etc/ansible,
/usr/local/etc/openssl. The exception msg was: ("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'SSL3_READ_BYTES', 'tlsv1 alert
protocol version')],)",).
Use the -c parameter to ignore the errors (in real life, you should really upgrade Ansible)
rocinante:ex407_ansible_specialist_practice_tasks rilindo$ ansible-galaxy install https://github.com/monzell/ansible-lighttpd/archive/v0.1.tar.gz -c
- downloading role from https://github.com/monzell/ansible-lighttpd/archive/v0.1.tar.gz
- extracting v0.1 to /etc/ansible/roles/v0.1
Most of the documentation can be looked up with ansible-doc -l. Since it takes a very long time to pull up, you can pipe the list of modules to file before writing any code. This will save time, as you only need to page through or grep in a text file instead of waiting until ansible-doc -l loads. For example, if you need to look up a mysql_user module, you can do this:
stardust:~ rilindo$ ansible-doc -l > /tmp/ansible.txt
stardust:~ rilindo$ grep mysql_user /tmp/ansible.txt
mysql_user Adds or removes a user from a MySQL database.
proxysql_mysql_users Adds or removes mysql users from proxysql admin interface.
stardust:~ rilindo$ ansible-doc mysql_user
It may be possible to install additional documentation by running:
sudo yum -y install ansible-doc
This will let you install ansible web site documentation:
[centos@centos-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo2-02 ~]$ sudo yum -y install ansible-doc
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.oit.uci.edu
* extras: mirror.sjc02.svwh.net
* updates: mirror.san.fastserv.com
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ansible-doc.noarch 0:2.4.2.0-2.el7 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
==============================================================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
==============================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
ansible-doc noarch 2.4.2.0-2.el7 extras 763 k
Transaction Summary
==============================================================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package
Total download size: 763 k
Installed size: 1.9 M
Downloading packages:
ansible-doc-2.4.2.0-2.el7.noarch.rpm | 763 kB 00:00:00
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Installing : ansible-doc-2.4.2.0-2.el7.noarch 1/1
Verifying : ansible-doc-2.4.2.0-2.el7.noarch 1/1
Installed:
ansible-doc.noarch 0:2.4.2.0-2.el7
Complete!
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/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/porting_guide_2.0.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/porting_guide_2.3.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/porting_guide_2.4.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/porting_guides.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/python_3_support.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/quickstart.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/release_and_maintenance.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/roadmap
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_1.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_2.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_3.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_4.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/test_strategies.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/tower.rst
/usr/share/doc/ansible-doc-2.4.2.0/rst/vault.rst
For jinja2 documentation, you can also look it up locally with elinks:
elinks file:///usr/share/doc/python-jinja2-2.7.2/html/templates.html
You can install from a tarball directly. Here is an example:
ansible-galaxy install https://github.com/monzell/ansible-lighttpd/archive/v0.1.tar.gz
Currently, ansible-galaxy does not install from zip archives.
You can print out variables in name. This can be useful to verify that you are setting the right variables:
- hosts: all
vars:
filename: hellworld.txt
tasks:
- name: "We are copying file {{ filename }} to the instance"
copy:
src: "{{ filename }}"
dest: "/tmp/{{ filename }}"
Note that this would probably not work for loop variables item as well as ansible facts.
Remember, ansible will read configuration variables in the following locations:
- in ANSIBLE_CONFIG variable
- in the current working directory
- in .ansible.cfg in
- in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
To practice your ansible configuration, you can simply drop the config in the current working folder or home directory, rather than modifying the existing ansible.cfg in /etc/ansible. You can download the current config from the following location:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/ansible.cfg