Create a dynamic Ansible playbook for deploying a webpage in any type of OS

2 min readJan 12, 2021

In this article i use two os Redhat and Ubuntu Os . we know that apache2 keyword use for Ubuntu and httpd keyword use for redhat For installing webserver . So here i use two seperate file and put variable name accordingly Os system By ansible_facts .

Ansible Facts :

Ansible you can retrieve or discover certain variables containing information about your remote systems or about Ansible itself. So here i use ansible_facts variable to retrive ip of the os’s .

To see Facts of any os Following Command use :

# ansible IPOfos -m setup

"ansible_distribution" and "ansible_distribution_major_version" facts use here to know about OS name and its version so that we can create a dynamic playbook for deploying the webpage without using any condition.

Here is use Redhat-8.yml and Ubuntu-20.yml two file File name shoul align with os facts .

When Redhat os come then All variable come from Redhat-8.yml .When Ubuntu then variable come from Ubuntu-20.yml . So now Our Playbook will work as dynamic .

So after creating the Setup.yml run the Playbook