RedHat Exam EX294 Topic 3 Question 58 Discussion

Actual exam question for RedHat's EX294 exam

Question #: 58
Topic #: 3

[All EX294 Questions]

Generate a hosts file:

* Download an initial template file hosts.j2 from http://classroom.example.com/

hosts.j2 to

/home/admin/ansible/ Complete the template so that it can be used to generate a file

with a

line for each inventory host in the same format as /etc/hosts:

172.25.250.9 workstation.lab.example.com workstation

* Create a playbook called gen_hosts.yml that uses this template to generate the file

/etc/myhosts on hosts in the dev host group.

* When completed, the file /etc/myhosts on hosts in the dev host group should have a

line for

each managed host:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

172.25.250.10 serevra.lab.example.com servera

172.25.250.11 serevrb.lab.example.com serverb

172.25.250.12 serevrc.lab.example.com serverc

172.25.250.13 serevrd.lab.example.com serverd

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while practising you to create these file hear. But in exam have to download as per

questation.

hosts.j2 file consists.

localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

::1

localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

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AExplanation:
Solution as:
# pwd
/home/admin/ansible
# wget http://classroom.example.com/hosts.j2
# vim hosts.j2
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1
localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
{% for host in groups['all'] %}
{{ hostvars[host]['ansible_facts']['default_ipv4']['address'] }} {{ hostvars[host]
['ansible_facts']['fqdn'] }} {{ hostvars[host]['ansible_facts']['hostname'] }}
{% endfor %}
:wq!
# vim gen_hosts.yml
---
- name: collecting all host information
hosts: all
tasks:
- name:
template:
src: hosts.j2
dest: /etc/myhosts
when: inventory_hostname in groups['dev']
:wq
# ansible-playbook gen_hosts.yml ---syntax-check
# ansible-playbook gen_hosts.yml

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Tegan

5 days ago

Ha! Looks like the exam wants us to download the hosts.j2 file, but doesn't provide the actual URL. Where's that hidden treasure trove of a website?

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Gaston

11 days ago

I like the use of the Jinja2 template to generate the /etc/myhosts file dynamically based on the inventory. That's a smart approach.

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Izetta

18 days ago

The solution looks good, but I'm not sure how the hosts.j2 template file is supposed to be downloaded from the classroom.example.com website. Is that part of the exam question?

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