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AI-Powered Ansible Playbook Validation

This is the 1st challenge of the Steampunk Ansible Challenge competition. See general instructions for more info about the competition.

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Scenario

You are DevOps engineer tasked with deploying a simple web page within a Nginx Docker container using Ansible. To expedite your development, you've turned to the latest advancements in technology and partnered with an AI assistant, ChatGPT. ChatGPT has generated a playbook.yml that appears to meet your requirements.

However, as a DevOps professional, your mission is to validate this playbook and ensure it is not just functional, but truly production-ready, with impeccable quality, reliability, security, and trustworthiness. It is also important that the playbook is runnable with the latest Ansible version 2.15.

Prerequisites

You can find the playbook in playbook.yml. Make sure that you have installed all the general prerequisites.

The challenge requires Ansible 2.15. You can tell Steampunk Spotter to act as if you are scanning against Ansible 2.15.

spotter scan --project-id <project-id> --ansible-version 2.15 playbook.yml

Or you can install Ansible 2.15 to be able to run the playbook:

# install just Ansible with core modules
pip install ansible-core==2.15.4
# or you can install Ansible with all community collections
pip install ansible==8.4.0

If you want to run the playbook locally, you will also need to install Docker Engine.

Tips

It is known that AI can have "hallucinations", so be careful, for example when looking at Ansible modules that are used in the playbook. You can run the playbook locally and see if it works. You can use the following playbook to undeploy the application if needed:

---
- name: Tear down web application deployed with Ansible and Docker
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  become: false
  vars:
    docker_network_name: my_network
    docker_container_name: my_web_page
  tasks:
    - name: Stop and remove Docker container
      community.docker.docker_container:
        name: "{{ docker_container_name }}"
        state: absent

    - name: Remove Docker network
      community.docker.docker_network:
        name: "{{ docker_network_name }}"
        state: absent

    - name: Display teardown message
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        msg: "Web application has been torn down successfully."