Week 13 Assignment

This assignment will hone your system automation skills with ansible and have you utilize roles.

Tasks

You will use ansible to automatically deploy the pokemon application found here. Don’t forget that you need to install apache2,libapache2-mod-php, php, php-mysql on the web machine.

On the mysql machine, you will install mysql-server and python-mysqldb.

I will be looking to see that you are utilizing variables, roles, and other concepts that we have learned in class. You will at a minimum have 2 roles: one for mysql, one for apache. (You should have separate machines for these services as well).

• If you get errors like unable to find /root/.my.cnf, you should add the following login_unix_socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock to any mysql modules you are using, like:

  - name: create poke db
    mysql_db:
      login_unix_socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
      name: pokemondb
      state: present
  

You could choose to automatedly visit the install.php page, or do so manually. (i.e. via a curl command)

You should show me that your playbook runs and that the pokemon app will load for you in a web browser.

HINTS

Here is an example of how a playbook can be used to send in variables to a role:

    ---
    - hosts: php
      gather_facts: no
      roles:
        - { role: ../roles/nfs, AUTOFS: "yes" }
        - { role: ../roles/hostname, HOSTNAMEVAR: php }

Submission

Pass off in class.

Last Updated 02/07/2025