Set up the necessary tools such as git chromedriver selenium chromium browser selenium on the slave node through Ansible

Question

Regarding the step for executing the solution in devops project

Set up the necessary tools such as git, chromedriver(selenium), chromium browser(selenium) on the slave node through Ansible


Cant seem to understand what to exactly do here. Can you please elaborate further on this step?

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How to configure Git in the slave node?

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Hi,

You need to configure your Ansible inventory file in the /etc/ansible folder. After that, you can create an ansible playbook. To install any software with Ansible, we generally use the package module. You can go through the below document.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/package_module.html

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I am new in Ansible. Can you share the ansible playbook?

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Hi,

If you have configured the inventory properly, then the below playbook you can use.

- name: Install Git
  package:
    name: {replace with the software name}
    state: present

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Thanks it worked.

Answer 1

Hey, You are asked to install tools like git, selenium chrome driver, etc on the slave node and this has to be done using ansible which will configure the above tools on your slave machine.

You will need to write the code in ansible playbooks to do the installations.

Have a look at these: https://www.edureka.co/community/41267/install-git-using-ansible

http://coryklein.com/ansible/2015/10/09/using-ansible-to-install-google-chrome.html

Hope this helps!

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I have a question , can use the same procedur for the chrominm browser

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The process should probably be the same. What exactly are you trying to do?

Answer 2

- hosts: all
  vars :
   mytext: |
     [google-chrome]
     name=google-chrome
     baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch
     enabled=1
     gpgcheck=1
     gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
   updatetest : |
  tasks:
   - name: Creating a file with content
     file:
      path: "/etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo"
      mode: 0777
      owner: root
      state: touch
   - name: create File content
     copy:
       dest: "/etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo"
       content: "{{ mytext }}"
   - name: Install Chrome
     yum:
      name: google-chrome-stable
      state: present
      update_cache: yes
   - name: Epel-release
     yum:
      name: epel-release
      state: present
      update_cache: yes
   - name: install chromium
     yum:
       name: chromium
       state: present
   - name: chromedriver
     yum:
       name: chromedriver
       state: present
...

Above solution for centos.