🚀 Ansible Simple Automation Task

📌 Project Overview

This repository contains an Ansible automation project that provisions and configures Apache web servers automatically.

The playbook performs the following actions:

• Installs Apache (httpd)
• Starts and enables the Apache service
• Deploys a custom index.html file to the web server

This project demonstrates fundamental DevOps automation practices and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Ansible.

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🖼️ Screenshots

Below are key screenshots to verify infra, connectivity, syntax, and successful runs.

1) EC2 Instances (Targets)

2) SSH Connectivity Check

3) Playbook Syntax Check

4) Playbook Run — First Execution

5) Playbook Run — Second (Idempotent) Execution

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🎯 Project Objectives

• Automate Apache installation
• Configure and manage system services
• Deploy static web content automatically
• Manage multiple servers using Ansible Inventory
• Apply idempotent configuration management

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🛠 Technologies Used

• Ansible
• Linux (Target Servers | EC2 Instances)
• Apache (httpd)
• SSH Authentication

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📂 Project Structure

Ansible-Automation-Task/
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├── ansible.cfg        # Ansible configuration file
├── inventory          # Target hosts definition
├── playbook.yml       # Main automation playbook
├── index.html         # Custom web page
└── README.md          # Project documentation

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⚙️ Prerequisites

Before running this project, ensure you have:

• Ansible installed on the Control Node
• SSH access to the target servers
• SSH key-based authentication configured (recommended)
• Linux-based target machines (e.g., CentOS / RHEL)

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✔️ Check Ansible installation

ansible --version

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🚀 How to Run the Project

1️⃣ Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/engasaleh/Ansible-Automation-Task.git

2️⃣ Navigate into the Project Directory

cd Ansible-Automation-Task

3️⃣ Update the Inventory File

Edit the inventory file and replace the IP addresses with your target servers.

Example:

[webservers]
192.168.1.10 ansible_user=ec2-user

4️⃣ Run the Playbook

ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml

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🌐 Expected Result

After successful execution:

• Apache will be installed
• Apache service will be running and enabled
• The custom index.html page will be deployed to the web root directory

You can access the web server using:

http://<server-ip>