Ubuntu Ansible Machine Configuration

This Ubuntu machine has ansible installed on it, which allows the user to control other machines on the network easily. For example, the user can install a program on half of the machines remotely, or choose to add users to the Domain with one command.

Network Configuration

mgmt02 configuration

• Hostname: mgmt02-unlucky
• IP Address: 10.0.5.11
• Primary DNS Address: 10.0.5.5
• Alternate DNS Address: 10.0.5.6
• Domain: unlucky.local

Installation of Ansible

• Retrieve the Ansible repository with audo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
• Update list of packages with sudo apt-get update
• Install Ansible with sudo apt-get install sshpass ansible
• Install python and pip with sudo apt-get install python-pip python-setuptools
• Install winrm which allows for Windows to communicate with Ansible with sudo pip install wheel pywinrm pywinrm[kerberos]