How To Install Git Using Ansible: A Step-By-Step Guide

Step 1: Launch An Instance

• Now go to AWS Management console and login with credentials ,Here we are going to launch two instances one is master node another is slave node.
• Now launch an two EC2 instances

• Now connect with terminal

Step 2: Install Ansible

• Now install ansible in master node. by using following command

sudo amazon-linux-extras install ansible2

Step 3: Creating Playbook

• Create a new YAML file, with .yml extension to define the git installation tasks on slave node. By using this playbook we are installing git on slave node.
• Here is the script to install git using ansible playbook

- name: Install Git on Amazon Linux
   hosts: your_amazon_linux_instance_name
   become: true
   tasks:
    - name: Install Git
      yum:
        name: git
        state: present

Step 4: Creating Inventory File Or Setting Up Host Permissions

• Create an inventory file listing the target servers where Git will be installed on slave node.
• Now by using cd command move to ansible directory path

• In host file we are providing slave node details because target group is slave node. Git can be installed on slave node.

ansible_host=private IP address of slave node 
ansible_user=ec2-user
ansible_ssh_private_key=keypair file path 

• Now we need to import our keypair from desktop to local machine by using following command

scp -i keyapir.pem keypair.pem ec2-user@public-IP-address:/home/ec2-user #this is our home directory path

• Now we need to change file permission to only read. We only providing read permissions , so users cannot edit this file

sudo chmod 400 <filename>

• So now we are verifying that our master node is connected or not to slave node, it can be check by using following command

ansible all -m ping

Step 5: Running the Playbook

Now execute to run the playbook by using following command

ansible-playbook <filename.yml>

Step 6: Verify The Git Installation

• Now slave node connect to terminal and check git version by using following command

git --version

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