Infrastructure as Code with Ansible

NewPush Labs uses Ansible for infrastructure as code (IaC), ensuring consistency, reproducibility, and scalability in lab environments.

Key Concepts

1. Playbooks: Ansible playbooks define the desired state of your infrastructure and applications.

2. Roles: Reusable components that encapsulate tasks, handlers, and variables.

3. Inventories: Define the hosts and groups that Ansible manages.

4. Variables: Used to customize playbooks for different environments or use cases.

Using Ansible in NewPush Labs

Structure

The Ansible configuration in NewPush Labs typically this structure:

ansible/
├── inventory/
├── group_vars/
├── roles/
├── playbooks/
│   ├── lab.yaml

Running Playbooks

To apply configuration changes:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/lab.yml -p provisioning/ansible/lab.yaml

Makefile

The Makefile in the project directory defines a couple of macros for easier use. Refer to the Makefile for the list of up to date macros.