Ansible Tower

Question 1

What are Ansible Tower benefits?

Answer 1

1) Role based Access control
2) Projects
3) Inventory management
4) Job templates
5) REST API

Question 2

What is the meaning of Ansible acts as gatekeeper to hosts?

Answer 2

When using Tower, no employee is required to have direct access to managed hosts. This reduces complexity and increases security.

Question 3

What are the advatnages of role based access control in Ansible Tower?

Answer 3

User receives only as much control of the managed nodes and playbooks as they need

Question 4

What is a project?

Answer 4

bucket of playbooks and roles

Question 5

Are inventory part of projects

Answer 5

no, inventories are kept separately. but anything related to inventories such as variables are kept in the project.

Question 6

Where is the best place to store ansible playbooks?

Answer 6

SCM, GIT, mercurial: use versioned repository

Question 7

When using versioned repository, how do you ensure Ansible uses the latest version of the playbooks?

Answer 7

1) Activate the flag: Update on Launch
2) Set a scheduled update job on esch project to regularly update the project
3) Manually updates to get more control of when the update happens

Question 8

What are components of inventory management in Ansible Tower?

Answer 8

1) inventories
2) default variables
3) groups and hosts
4) access control for inventories
5) dynamic inventory assets and functionality

Question 9

What is the role of job templates?

Answer 9

They connect projects with inventories. define how users can run playbook with specific inventories

Question 10

What are the different mode a user may be allowed to run a playbook?

Answer 10

1) check mode

2) live move

Question 11

What is a job?

Answer 11

an executed job template

Question 12

What type of information are provided by jobs in Tower?

Answer 12

1) Whether the job was successful or not
2) Data and time of execution
3) data and time of completion
4) Name of the person who started a job

Question 13

What is the add value of the Tower REST API?

Answer 13

Allows integration with existing build, deploy, or CI/CD pipelines

Question 14

My tower server is running at http://tower.example.com. What would be the API of the REST service?

Answer 14

http://tower.example.com/api/v1

Question 15

Where can I find documentation on Ansible Tower?

Answer 15

https://doc.ansible.com/ansible-tower

Question 16

How do I use Tower without the Web GUI?

Answer 16

1) Use curl to access the REST API

2) User ansible-cli

Question 17

What is tower-cli?

Answer 17

open source tool that allows you to use ansible from the command line

Question 18

After installing tower-cli how do I configure it so I can use it?

Answer 18

>tower-cli config host 10.42.0.42
>tower-cli config username admin
>tower-cli config password macaboBRULE
>tower-cli config verify_ssl false
>tower-cli config format yaml
>tower-cli config

Question 19

How do you get help from ansible-cli on creating a user?

Answer 19

> tower-cli user

>tower-cli user create –help

Question 20

Example command for creating a tower user

Answer 20

> tower-cli user create –username guy –password ‘s3kr3t$’ –email guy@example.com –first-name GuyBronze –last-name Threepod

Question 21

Example command to get the list of job templates

Answer 21

> tower-cli job-template list –format human

Question 22

Example command to launch a f job template

Answer 22

> tower-cli launch job –job-template ‘Deploy App Terroire’ –format human

Question 23

Example command to monitor a job template

Answer 23

> tower-cli monitor 11 –format human