Install Ansible

• Install ansible on your controller (mgmt2-sparkle in this case)
  • sudo apt install ansible sshpass python3-paramiko

Set up Ansible Directory

• Make directory ansible
  • mkdir -p ansible

Create host files

• Within the ansible directory make two hosts files, one for windows and one for linux.
• Put all your VM's hostnames in their respective files

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• vi windows_hosts.txt

• vi linux_hosts.txt

Create RSA Key pair on controller (mgmt2-sparkle)

• On the controller (mgmt02-sparkle)
  • ssh-keygen

Copy keys to linux nodes

• ssh-copy-id sparkle-deployer@hostname
  • replace hostname with node name (you will copy them to every nodes)
• do the command above for all the nodes
  • util-sparkle
  • dhcp1-razzle
  • dhcp2-dazzle

Add commands for passwordless SSH login

Make sure you re-run these commands everytime you come back to your machine!

eval $(ssh-agent)
ssh-add -t 14400

Ping Linux hosts

• ansible all -m ping -i linux_hosts.txt

Ping Windows Hosts

OpenSSH will create SSH key on systems once it is install. This is why you don't need to copy the keys to the windows machine before you can ping them with anisble, all you have to do it have OpenSSH set up.

• ansible windows -i windows_hosts.txt -m win_ping -u sparkle-deployer@sparkle.local --ask-pass