Ansible Playbook for Scout on Ubuntu

raravena80@gmail.com (Ricardo Aravena) — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is a sample Ansible task (http://www.ansibleworks.com) on how to setup Scout (https://www.scoutapp.com) on Ubuntu. It needs to be included in an ansible playbook.

It’s a follow up to a previous [blog]({% post_url 2013-10-21-how-to-create-an-ansible-playbook-to-configure-haproxy %}) describing an Ansible Playbook to setup an HAProxy system. This Ansible task can be included in the HAProxy playbook as well as any other playbooks with something like this:

---
PLAYBOOK: Install scout on Ubuntu
---
- name: scout
 hosts: all
 user: user-with-sudo
 sudo: True

 vars:
 scout_key: YourScoutAPIKeyFromTheirWebsite

 tasks:
 - include: tasks/scout.yml

We start by defining a “task” file: