Scout

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: