How to Install Packages on Remote Systems with Ansible

We will use Ansible to deploy packages to remote systems and in this case all the remote systems are running Debian, therefore we will be using the APT package manager.

Pre-Requisites:

Ensure that you have installed Ansible and setup the SSH Config for your remote systems, how to do that can be found under the post: setting up ansible

Our Inventory

The inventory file that describes our hosts:

inventory.ini

[scaleway]
cluster-node-1
cluster-node-2

[hetzner]
docker-node-1
docker-node-2
docker-node-3
glusterfs-node-1
glusterfs-node-2
elasticsearch-node-1
elasticsearch-node-2

[scaleway:vars]
ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
location=france

[hetzner:vars]
ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
location=germany

Playbook

Our playbook that we will define that we want to deploy packages using apt to all hosts:

packages.yml

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: Install Packages
    apt: name={{ item }} state=latest update_cache=yes
    with_items:
      - ntp
      - python
      - tcpdump
      - wget
      - openssl
      - curl

Deploy

Running the playbook to deploy the packages to the remote servers:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini packages.yml

PLAY [all] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [glusterfs-node-2]
ok: [glusterfs-node-1]
ok: [docker-node-1]
ok: [docker-node-2]
ok: [docker-node-3]
ok: [elasticsearch-node-1]
ok: [elasticsearch-node-2]
ok: [cluster-node-1]
ok: [cluster-node-2]

TASK [Install Packages] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [docker-node-1] => (item=[u'ntp', u'python', u'tcpdump', u'wget', u'openssl', u'curl'])
changed: [docker-node-2] => (item=[u'ntp', u'python', u'tcpdump', u'wget', u'openssl', u'curl'])
changed: [docker-node-3] => (item=[u'ntp', u'python', u'tcpdump', u'wget', u'openssl', u'curl'])
changed: [elasticsearch-node-1] => (item=[u'ntp', u'python', u'tcpdump', u'wget', u'openssl', u'curl'])
changed: [glusterfs-node-1] => (item=[u'ntp', u'python', u'tcpdump', u'wget', u'openssl', u'curl'])
changed: [glusterfs-node-2] => (item=[u'ntp', u'python', u'tcpdump', u'wget', u'openssl', u'curl'])
changed: [elasticsearch-node-2] => (item=[u'ntp', u'python', u'tcpdump', u'wget', u'openssl', u'curl'])
ok: [cluster-node-1] => (item=[u'ntp', u'python', u'tcpdump', u'wget', u'openssl', u'curl'])
ok: [cluster-node-2] => (item=[u'ntp', u'python', u'tcpdump', u'wget', u'openssl', u'curl'])

PLAY RECAP ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
docker-node-1              : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
docker-node-2              : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
docker-node-3              : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
elasticsearch-node-1       : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
elasticsearch-node-2       : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
glusterfs-node-1           : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
glusterfs-node-2           : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0
cluster-node-1             : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0
cluster-node-2             : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

This is it for this post, all posts for this tutorial will be posted under #ansible-tutorials

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