Ansible Interview Questions 4

Q40) Ansible has two types of servers. Select the appropriate answer from the given options.

1. only node
2. controlling machines and nodes

Answer: controlling machines and nodes

Q41) How to define the number of parallel processes while communicating to remote hosts?

1. pipelining
2. Forks
3. become_method
4. become

Answer: Forks

Q42) What is the default forks value in configuration file?

1. 1
2. 5
3. 7
4. depends upon hosts in the inventory

Answer: 5

Q43) How can you reduce the number of SSH connections required?

1. accelerate port
2. pipelining
3. forks
4. become_method

Answer: pipelining

Q44) Which configuration management is agentless

Ansible

Puppet

chef

CFEngine

Answer: Ansible

Q45) Ansible is generally referred to as what?

Infrastructure as code

Orchestration Engine

Configuration management

All the options

Answer: All the options

Q46) How would you write comments on Jinja2:

1. {{}}
2. {##}
3. {%%}

Answer: {##}

Q47) What is the web-based interface used to access projects, inventories, job templates and jobs Ansible?

Answer: Ansible Tower Interface

Q48) How to Install Ansible in the Redhat Linux operating system?

Answer:

yum install ansible

Once the installation is completed, check the ansible version :

þÿ a n s i b l e v e r s i o n

If ansible package is not available in the default yum repositories, we need to manualy download.

Q49) How to set SSH-based access from Controller to Managed Nodes which is recommended by Ansible?

Answer: It provides passwordless auth to access the managed servers

In Control Server.

Step 1: Create user for ansible useradd -d /home/gangboard -m gangboard passwd gangboard

Step 2: Switch to ansible user

Step 3:þÿ s u g a n g b o a r d

Step 4: Generate ssh key ssh-keygen -t rsa

Step 5: /home/gangboard/.ssh/id_rsa.pub => Public Key is in this file which needs to be copied to nodes ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Q50) Perform the following setps on all Managed nodes.

Answer:

Step 1: Create user for ansible useradd -d /home/tadmin -m tadmin passwd tadmin

Step 2:þÿ Switch to ansible users at admin

Step 3: Create .ssh directory mkdir .ssh

Step 4: Change permission to 700 for .ssh chmod 700 .ssh/

Step 5: Change Ownership to tadmin for .ssh chown tadmin:tadmin .ssh/

Step 6: create an authorized_keys file under .ssh and paste the public key from controller and

save it

Step 7: cd .ssh/ , vi authorized_keys

 

Step 8: Copy & paste the public key from the Controller server to this file [/home/tadmin/.ssh/id_rsa.pub]

Now you able to access the server without a password.

Q51) What is inventory in Ansible and how to update it?

Answer:

The inventory files contain a host list of managed nodes, when ansible accessing the client it look into inventory.

The default inventory file for Ansible is located under /etc/ansible/hosts

This default inventory lookup can be overridden using -i option providingthe custom inventory file

Example: ansible -i cmdb.inv main.yml Update default Inventoryfile/etc/ansible/hosts (as rootuser) [clients]

node1

node2

Q52) How to run ansible command? Briefly explain?

Answer:

Running ansible command #ansible all -m ping

ansible => Ansible command

all => Specifies the target to run the command.The target could an individual node or group(mentionedininventoryfile)orall(allthenodesintheinventory file). In this case all is used, which means that the command will be executed on all the nodes.

-m is the option that indicates that a module needs to be executed on remote nodes

ping is the name of a module. This module checks the ping status of the remote node. It has no attribute parameter (-a)