Conditions in ANSIBLE:

Conditions:

• whenever we have different different scenarios, we put conditions according to the scenario.

  When statement

  • Sometimes you want to skip a particular command on a particular node

    --- # CONDITIONAL PLAYBOOK
    - hosts: demo
      user: ansible
      become: yes
      connection: ssh
      tasks: 
             - name: Install Apache Server for Debian Family
               command: apt-get -y install apache2
               when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
             - name: Install Apache Server for RedHat Family
               command: yum -y install httpd
               when: ansible_os_family == "RedHat"
    

Lab:

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> Start all the Instances & login via PUTTY as we do if you stopped those instances after your previous lab

>Go to ANSIBLE-SERVER & do the below things:

ec2-user

sudo su

su - ansible

>Go to the all Connected NODES & do the below things:

ec2-user

sudo su

su - ansible

>Go to ANSIBLE-SERVER & do the below things:

vi conditions.yml