Install and Configure Apache

 Install and Configure Apache on one of our clients

root@dcex1510ctrl001:~# cat ansible/playbooks/apacheInstallAndConfigure.yaml

- name: Ansible playbook to install and configure apache2 and restart the service 

  hosts: client01

  tasks:

  - name: Install Apache

    apt:

      name: apache2

      state: present

  - name: Configure apache

    shell: echo "My First Web Page via Ansible" > /var/www/html/index.html

    args:

      executable: /bin/bash

    notify:

      - Reload Apache

  handlers:

   - name: Reload Apache

     service:

       name: apache2

       state: reloaded

ansible-playbook -i ansible/hosts/hosts.ini ansible/playbooks/apacheInstallAndConfigure.yaml

The usage of the handler is to restart the service. if we will restart the same service several time , we can use handlers one time at the end of the playbook to restart the service only one time