Chapter 4. Running the playbook

Prerequisites

• You have enabled an automated deployment of JBoss Web Server.
• You are familar with general Ansible concepts and creating Ansible playbooks. For more information, see the Ansible documentation.

• Your playbook includes an appropriate link to the location where you have defined your variables.

  For example:

  ---
  [...]
    vars_files:
      - <path_to_vars_file>/vars.yml
  [...]

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  The preceding example assumes that you have defined variables in a vars.yml file. Replace <path_to_vars_file> with the appropriate path.

• Your playbook also specifies the redhat.jws.jws role.

  For example:

  ---
  [...]
    roles:
      - redhat.jws.jws
  [...]

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  Note

  The redhat.jws.jws role is already preconfigured with become: true directives, which activate user privilege escalation for performing any automated tasks that require root privileges on your target hosts.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8 or 9 is already installed on your target hosts.

Procedure

• Perform either of the following steps:

  • On your Ansible control node, enter the following command:

    $ ansible-playbook <playbook_name>.yml

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    In the preceding command, replace <playbook_name> with the name you have assigned to your playbook. The preceding command assumes that your user account supports passwordless authentication.

    Note

    If your user account requires password authentication, you can run the preceding command with the --ask-sudo-pass option and specify the required password when prompted. For example:

    $ ansible-playbook <playbook_name>.yml --ask-sudo-pass

  • Use the Red Hat Ansible automation controller to run your playbook. For more information about getting started with the automation controller, see the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform documentation page.