Appendix C. Configuring Ansible inventory location

As an option, you can configure inventory location files for the ceph-ansible staging and production environments.

Prerequisites

  • An Ansible administration node.
  • Root-level access to the Ansible administration node.
  • The ceph-ansible package is installed on the node.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the /usr/share/ceph-ansible directory: 

    [ansible@admin ~]# cd /usr/share/ceph-ansible

  2. Create subdirectories for staging and production: 

    [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ mkdir -p inventory/staging inventory/production

  3. Edit the ansible.cfg file and add the following lines: 

    [defaults]
inventory = ./inventory/staging # Assign a default inventory directory

  4. Create an inventory 'hosts' file for each environment: 

    [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ touch inventory/staging/hosts
[ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ touch inventory/production/hosts

    1. Open and edit each hosts file and add the Ceph Monitor nodes under the [mons] section: 

      [mons]
MONITOR_NODE_NAME_1
MONITOR_NODE_NAME_1
MONITOR_NODE_NAME_1

      Example

      [mons]
mon-stage-node1
mon-stage-node2
mon-stage-node3

      Note

      By default, playbooks run in the staging environment. To run the playbook in the production environment: 

      [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/production playbook.yml

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