Run Oracle Linux Tasks

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Details

Oracle Linux Automation Engine enables administrators to automate the initial setup of Oracle Linux and run other administrative jobs using an Infrastructure as code (IaC) configuration management tool through a series of playbooks and tasks.

Objectives

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

• Write playbooks that:
  • Create a user
  • Adds the user to the sudo group
  • Copies a local SSH public key to the user’s authorized_keys file
  • Adds a DNF repository and installs a package
  • Manipulates files

Prerequisites

• A minimum of two Oracle Linux systems with the following configuration:

  • a non-root user with sudo permissions
  • ssh keypair for the non-root user
  • the ability to SSH from one host to another using a passwordless SSH login