Red Hat High Availability Clustering for SAP Solutions

Instructions

1. Create a working directory structure for playbooks and configuration files:

   [student@workstation ~]$ mkdir ansible-files
   [student@workstation ~]$ cd ansible-files
   [student@workstation ansible-files]$ mkdir collections host_vars group_vars

2. Install the required collections for this course.

   1. Verify that the Red Hat supported collections are already installed on your system.

      [student@workstation ansible-files]$ ansible-galaxy collection list
      
      # /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections
      Collection               Version
      ------------------------ -------
      ansible.posix            1.4.0
      community.general        5.5.0
      redhat.rhel_system_roles 1.16.2
      redhat.sap_install       1.0.2

   2. Create a file named requirements.yml in the ${HOME}/ansible-files/collections directory, with the following content:

      ---
      collections:
              - name: community.sap_libs
                version: 1.1.0
              - name: community.sap_install
                version: 1.2.3
              - name: community.sap_operations
                version: 0.9.0
              - name: https://github.com/sap-linuxlab/community.sap_launchpad.git
                type: git

   3. Install the collections that are named in this file:

      [student@workstation ansible-files]$ ansible-galaxy collection install \
      > -r collections/requirements.yml
      
      Cloning into '/home/student/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-7270kh4rk3yg/tmpb_i1nhkj/community.sap_launchpaduj699pgn'...
      remote: Enumerating objects: 35, done.
      remote: Counting objects: 100% (35/35), done.
      remote: Compressing objects: 100% (29/29), done.
      remote: Total 35 (delta 2), reused 22 (delta 1), pack-reused 0
      Receiving objects: 100% (35/35), 27.98 KiB | 1.08 MiB/s, done.
      Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), done.
      Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
      Starting galaxy collection install process
      Process install dependency map
      Starting collection install process
      [...]
      Installing 'community.sap_launchpad:1.0.0' to '/home/student/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/sap_launchpad'
      Created collection for community.sap_launchpad:1.0.0 at /home/student/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/sap_launchpad
      community.sap_launchpad:1.0.0 was installed successfully

      Note

      This step installs the collections in the user's home directory. To install them globally, you must run this command as root and add to the command the -p /usr/share/ansible/collections parameter.

3. Verify that all required collections are installed now:

   [student@workstation ansible-files]$ ansible-galaxy collection list
   
   Collection               Version
   ------------------------ -------
   ansible.posix            1.4.0
   community.general        5.5.0
   redhat.rhel_system_roles 1.16.2
   redhat.sap_install       1.1.0
   
   # /home/student/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
   Collection               Version
   ------------------------ -------
   community.sap_install    1.2.3
   community.sap_launchpad  1.0.0
   community.sap_libs       1.1.0
   community.sap_operations 0.9.0

   Note

   This course uses Ansible without a dedicated Ansible Execution Environment (EE). If you use Ansible Execution Environments or Ansible Automation Platform, then you can use ansible-builder to create an EE that includes these collections.