Ansible

This posts describes how to create a simple Ansible task on how to setup PaperTrail on Ubuntu.

It’s a follow up to a previous blog describing an Ansible Playbook to setup an HAProxy system. This Ansible task can be included in the HAProxy playbook as well as any other playbooks with something like this:

---
PLAYBOOK: Install papertrail on Ubuntu
---
- name: scout
  hosts: all
  user: <user-with-sudo>
  sudo: True

  tasks:
    - include: tasks/papertrail.yml

Next, we define the task that includes installing the dependencies rsyslog and libssl-dev. Also we copy a specific rsyslog configuration for papertrail.

This is a sample Ansible task (http://www.ansibleworks.com) on how to setup Scout (https://www.scoutapp.com) on Ubuntu. It needs to be included in an ansible playbook.

It’s a follow up to a previous [blog]({% post_url 2013-10-21-how-to-create-an-ansible-playbook-to-configure-haproxy %}) describing an Ansible Playbook to setup an HAProxy system. This Ansible task can be included in the HAProxy playbook as well as any other playbooks with something like this:

---
PLAYBOOK: Install scout on Ubuntu
---
- name: scout
  hosts: all
  user: user-with-sudo
  sudo: True

  vars:
    scout_key: YourScoutAPIKeyFromTheirWebsite

  tasks:
    - include: tasks/scout.yml

We start by defining a “task” file: