🌐 Ansible Infrastructure Automation Project

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Overview

This repository automates the setup and configuration of Development, Testing, and Production environments using Ansible.

The goal is to standardize and simplify infrastructure provisioning and configuration from a single control node, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and scalability across all environments.

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⚙️ Prerequisites

Before running any playbooks, ensure you have:

• A control node (Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, etc.)
• Target nodes reachable via SSH
• Python 3.10+
• Ansible 2.15+

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Installing Ansible on the Control Node

I have provided a script to install ansible with comments as instruction .

Verify Connection to Managed Nodes Ensure your inventory file (for example inventory/servers.ini) is correctly configured:

[devservers]

ipaddress, hostname, ssh_remote_user, ssh_passwd

[testservers]

ipaddress, hostname, ssh_remote_user, ssh_passwd

[prodservers]

ipaddress, hostname, ssh_remote_user, ssh_passwd

ansible all -m ping -i inventory/servers.ini

Expected output: ip_address | SUCCESS => { "changed": false, "ping": "pong" }

How to Use This Repository

1️⃣ Clone the Repository bash git clone https://github.com/blessin-bester/Ansible-Automation-Collection.git

cd Ansible-Automation-Collection

2️⃣ Update Inventories with your setups and Ip_addresses and Variables Modify inventory/ and group_vars/ files to match your environment.

3️⃣ Run Playbooks Run the Development setup:

🔐 Using Ansible Vault (Optional) If your environment includes sensitive data such as passwords, keys, or tokens, use Ansible Vault to encrypt them.

Create an encrypted variable file: bash ansible-vault create group_vars/prod.yml

Run a playbook using a vault password: bash ansible-playbook -i inventory/prod.ini playbooks/prod.yml --ask-vault-pass

GitHub Actions Integration (CI/CD)

This repository includes a GitHub Actions workflow under .github/workflows/ansible-ci.yml.

What It Does:

Lints playbooks and YAML files using ansible-lint, Molecule and yamllint

Runs automatically on every push or pull request

Ensures consistent and clean code across environments

👥 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

You can contribute by:

1. Adding new roles
2. Improving playbooks

Extending support to more OS or cloud environments

📝 License This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

💡 Author Blessing Phiri DevOps / OpenShift / Platform Engineer 🔗 GitHub Profile

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