EX294 Sample Questions Answers

Create user accounts

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--> A list of users to be created can be found in the file called user_list.yml

which you should download from http://classroom.example.com/user_list.yml and

save to /home/admin/ansible/

--> Using the password vault created elsewhere in this exam, create a playbook called

create_user.yml

that creates user accounts as follows:

--> Users with a job description of developer should be:

--> created on managed nodes in the "dev" and "test" host groups assigned the

password from the "dev_pass"

variable and these user should be member of supplementary group "devops".

--> Users with a job description of manager should be:

--> created on managed nodes in the "prod" host group assigned the password from

the "mgr_pass" variable

and these user should be member of supplementary group "opsmgr"

--> Passwords should use the "SHA512" hash format. Your playbook should work using

the vault password file

created elsewhere in this exam.

while practising you to create these file hear. But in exam have to download as per

questation.

user_list.yml file consist:

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user:

- name: user1

job: developer

- name: user2

job: manager

Create a jinja template in /home/sandy/ansible/ and name it hosts.j2. Edit this file so it looks like the one below. The order of the nodes doesn't matter. Then create a playbook in /home/sandy/ansible called hosts.yml and install the template on dev node at /root/myhosts

Create a playbook called regulartasks.yml which has the system that append the date to /root/datefile every day at noon. Name is job 'datejob'

Install and configure Ansible on the control-node control.realmX.example.com as

follows:

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--> Install the required packages

--> Create a static inventory file called /home/admin/ansible/inventory as follows:

node1.realmX.example.com is a member of the dev host group

node2.realmX.example.com is a member of the test host group

node3.realmX.example.com & node4.realmX.example.com are members of the prod

host group

node5.realmX.example.com is a member of the balancers host group.

prod group is a member of the webservers host group

--> Create a configuration file called ansible.cfg as follows:

--> The host inventory file /home/admin/ansible/inventory is defined

--> The location of roles used in playbooks is defined as /home/admin/ansible/ roles

In /home/sandy/ansible/ create a playbook called logvol.yml. In the play create a logical volume called Iv0 and make it of size 1500MiB on volume group vgO If there is not enough space in the volume group print a message "Not enough space for logical volume" and then make a 800MiB Iv0 instead. If the volume group still doesn't exist, create a message "Volume group doesn't exist" Create an xfs filesystem on all Iv0 logical volumes. Don't mount the logical volume.

Create a file called requirements.yml in /home/sandy/ansible/roles to install two roles. The source for the first role is geerlingguy.haproxy and geerlingguy.php. Name the first haproxy-role and the second php-role. The roles should be installed in /home/sandy/ansible/roles.

Rekey an existing Ansible vault as follows:

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* Download Ansible vault from http:// classroom.example.com /secret.yml to /home/

admin/ansible/

* The current vault password is curabete

* The new vault password is newvare

* The vault remains in an encrypted state with the new password