# Day 59: Ansible Project 🔥 (Jan 24, 2024)
## **🙏 Introduction:**
In this blog, we will deploy a simple web app using ansible.
# **🎯Task: 1**
1. ### **Create 3 EC2 instances, make sure all three are created with same key pair**
* Three EC2 instances are created that include Ansible master node and Ansible servers.
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1. ### **Install Ansible in host server**
* Create the ansible repository in the master
```plaintext
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
```
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* Update the master node
```plaintext
sudo apt update
```
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* Install Ansible in the master node
```plaintext
sudo apt install ansible
```
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1. ### **Copy the private key from local to Host server (Ansible\_host) at (/home/ubuntu/.ssh)**
* Copy the private key that you have created while creating Ansible master node and Ansible servers
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* Create an ansible key file in .ssh directory and store the copied private key
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* Give access permission for the ansible\_key
```plaintext
sudo chmod 700 ansible_key
```
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1. ### **Access the inventory file using sudo vim /etc/ansible/hosts**
* Update the inventory file
```plaintext
[servers]
host_1 ansible_host=52.39.126.158
host_2 ansible_host=35.89.144.134
[all:vars]
ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
ansible_user=ubuntu
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/home/ubuntu/.ssh/ansible_key
```
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1. ### **Create a playbook to install Nginx**
* Create a file with name **install\_nginx.yml**
```plaintext
---
- name: Install Nginx
hosts: all
become: yes
tasks:
- name: Update apt
apt:
update_cache: yes
- name: Install Nginx
apt:
name: nginx
state: latest
- name: Start and enable Nginx service
service:
name: nginx
state: started
enabled: yes
```
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* Run the the ansible-playbook
```plaintext
ansible-playbook install_nginx.yml
```
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1. ### **Deploy a sample webpage using the ansible playbook**
* Create a webpage index.html file in the master node
```plaintext
Hello Guys , Welcome to my page
This is a sample webpage
```
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* Update the ansible-playbook
```plaintext
---
- name: Install Nginx
hosts: all
become: 'yes'
tasks:
- name: Update apt
apt:
update_cache: 'yes'
- name: Install Nginx
apt:
name: nginx
state: latest
- name: Start and enable Nginx service
service:
name: nginx
state: started
enabled: 'yes'
- name: Deploy webpage
copy:
src: /home/ubuntu/index.html
dest: /var/www/html/index.html
```
* Run the the ansible-playbook
```plaintext
ansible-playbook install_nginx.yml
```
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* Login to the Ansible-Server1 to check the webpage
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* Login to the Ansible-Server2 to check the webpage
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