Deploy an exe file to a list of servers

[Wassam Ashraf]

I can copy an exe file to the destination server and run it using PS, to install it.

A need has arised where this exe file would need to be copied to a list of 100+ servers and installed.

Can someone show me an example of a playbook yaml file, how we can achieve this?

Thanks

[Dick Visser]

What did you try already?

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[Nitrous]

I am new to ansible, and this is what I tried to run it on 1 server:

- hosts: '{{ hostname }}'

  gather_facts: no

  become_method: runas

  vars:

    ansible_become_password: "{{ domain_password }}"

  tasks:

  - name: Include vars of server.yaml file

    include_vars:

        file: /etc/ansible/servers/{{ hostname }}.yaml

        name: server

  - name: Wait For Connection to Continue

    wait_for_connection:

      connect_timeout: 30

- import_role:

      name: net481 

The above works for 1 server.. not sure how I can use the above for multiple servers. Thanks

[Chris Smart]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 04:12, Nitrous <wassama...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am new to ansible, and this is what I tried to run it on 1 server:

<snip> The above works for 1 server.. not sure how I can use the above for multiple servers.

You probably need to create an inventory (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html) with all of your machines in it, then when you run your playbook you can run it against all of them, or a subset (host or group).

You can specify custom variables in your inventory at your host level or at a group level, so you don't need to have a specific include_vars task if you don't want to.

For example, I like to use YAML for my inventory (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory/yaml.html), so it might be in a file called inventory.yaml (but you can use /etc/ansible/hosts instead) and look like this:

---

all:

  hosts:

    server1:

    server2:

      custom_var: "server 1 custom variable overrides group variable"

    server3:

      custom_var: "server 2 custom variable overrides group variable"

  vars:

    custom_var: "group level var for all hosts"

Then your play (site.yml) can look something like this:

---

- hosts: all

  gather_facts: no

  become_method: runas

  vars:

    ansible_become_password: "{{ domain_password }}"

  tasks:

  - name: Wait For Connection to Continue

    wait_for_connection:

      connect_timeout: 30

- import_role:

      name: net481

Then to run you could do something like this:

$ ansible-playbook --inventory inventory.yaml site.yml

If you want to restrict it to specific hosts instead of all the hosts, then you can use the limit function.

$ ansible-playbook --inventory inventory.yaml --limit server1,server2 site.yml

Note that if you do still want to use your task to load vars, then each machine will have a variable "inventory_hostname" which will be the host name you can use, so it could be:

  - name: Include vars of server.yaml file

    include_vars:

        file: /etc/ansible/servers/{{ inventory_hostname }}.yaml

        name: server

Hope that helps.

-c

 

Thanks

On Friday, December 3, 2021 at 10:50:37 AM UTC-6 dick....@geant.org wrote:

What did you try already?

On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 16:23, Wassam Ashraf <wassama...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can copy an exe file to the destination server and run it using PS, to install it.

A need has arised where this exe file would need to be copied to a list of 100+ servers and installed.

Can someone show me an example of a playbook yaml file, how we can achieve this?

Thanks

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