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Okay friends, so let's walk through the validation solution.

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Okay, so the very first thing I'm going to have to do is to go down to my

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organizations.

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Let's click on this here, then I will choose Add, I'll give this a name, and it

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's going to be called Validation -org.

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So let's just save this. Then I'm going to have to create an inventory called

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Validation -inf.

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So we go to my inventory, let's add a new one, and it's going to be called Val

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idation -inf.

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And let's make this a member of our new organization.

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And all we'll do now is I will choose Save.

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Now what I want to do is I want to include both of my hosts, that happen to be
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Now what I want to do is I want to include both of my hosts, that happen to be

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my Blue Box and my Yellow Box within this inventory.

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So I will go to my hosts, and I will just choose Add, and the name will be the

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Blue Box, and I will choose Save.

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And I'll go back to Hosts, choose Add again, and this time I will add my Yellow

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Box as well.

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Again, choose whatever names are appropriate for your environment.

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If you don't have a Blue Box in Yellow Box, use the names you happen to have

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chosen throughout this course.

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Now what I want to do is I want to have a group called Nuggets, and both of

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these managed devices, it should be a member of that group.
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these managed devices, it should be a member of that group.

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So if I look at my Validation -inf, this time if I go to the Groups tab, and I

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choose Add, I will have a group called Nuggets.

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And I will just choose Save.

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If I then go to my hosts that are going to be within this particular group, if

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I choose Add, and add an existing host,

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and I add both the Yellow Box and the Blue Box to this particular group and

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choose Save,

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now we can see here within my Groups I have the Nugget Group, and inside of

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here we have two hosts called Blue Box and Yellow Box.

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Now what I want to do is I want to create the appropriate credentials to log
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Now what I want to do is I want to create the appropriate credentials to log

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into these devices, so I'll go to Credentials, and I'll choose Add.

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Let's just give this a name of my credit, it doesn't actually matter the name,

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and the type is going to be a Machine Type,

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because after all we're going to be logging into two real devices.

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How do I actually manage the devices where they have an Ansible username on

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both devices, and the corresponding password for that account is Ansible once

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again.

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Now it's going on down, our Privilege_Escolation method is going to be pseudo,

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the user name will be root, and in my case here the root password is just

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simply password 1.
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Whatever the root password is for you, you would supply that value here too,

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and now I will just choose Save.

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So with that now done, what I want to do is to create a private repository on

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GitHub that is going to have a playbook called ValidationPlay.YML.

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So over on my GitHub account, all I will do is I will choose New from New Rep

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ository, give this a name of anything you so wish, I would just call this Val

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idation repo, and again I'm going to make this a private repository as per the

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instructions,

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and I will also add a Ruby file to initialize this, and I will just choose

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Create Repository.
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Now inside of here we should have a playbook called ValidationPlay.

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Let's go to Add, I'll create a new file, I'll just say ValidationPlay.YML, and

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now what I will do is I will write a playbook that is going to target the

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repository.

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So it is going to target the nuggets root, I'll give this a name, just call

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this maybe ValidationPlay.

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The host I should be targeting the nuggets root, I'll just say gather facts to

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be false to save time, we don't need those.

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And now I will define my tasks, and the task here is going to simply create a

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file on all devices, and I will use the Ansible built-in shell module, and all
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file on all devices, and I will use the Ansible built-in shell module, and all

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I will do is issue the command touch/tmp, and the file should be called aap-

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validation.txt.

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So this actually commit these changes, and now what I want to do is I want to

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ensure that the project is going to source playbooks from this repository, and

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I have to ensure that I have created source control credentials to access this

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private repo.

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So let me click my little icon here, I will go down to Settings, I'll scroll

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down the left to Developer Settings, choose Personal Access Tokens, then Tokens

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Classic, and now I will generate a new token, and click this here.
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Classic, and now I will generate a new token, and click this here.

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So I can call this token, anything used to wish, I will just call this Val

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idation Token, and I'll make it available for seven days, and all I will do is I

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will click Fill Control of Private Repositories, and then I'll scroll all the

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way down and generate the token.

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Now what I want to do is I want to copy this token, and make sure I keep a copy

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of it.

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Now what I will do is I will go and create more credentials for the repo, so

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let's add a new credential, let's just call this a repo-cred.

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Credential type, this time is going to be source control, the user name, well
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Credential type, this time is going to be source control, the user name, well

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my log and user name for my personal get-tob is my email address of ipv0@gmail.

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com, and the password here is simply going to be that token I just generated, so

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if I just paste this in, we can see that it is, and all I will do now is scroll

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all the way down and save these credentials.

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Perfect, so with that now saved, what I want to do is create a project that is

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going to source the playbooks from this repository, so let's add a new project,

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which is called as Validation Project, the name itself doesn't matter so much.

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The organization, again we'll use the Validation org, the source control type

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is going to be get, and now the source control URL, so what I will do here is I

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'll go back to my repository, so I'll go to my Repos, let's go to Validation
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'll go back to my repository, so I'll go to my Repos, let's go to Validation

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repo, then I'll go into Code here and just copy the URL, and I will paste in

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this URL right here, and now specify

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the source control credential to log in here, so I will choose as the repo

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credits right here and select, and now I will choose Save.

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So with that now done, I want to effectively run the Validation Playbook from

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within a template, so let's go to my templates, and I'll add a new template,
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let's go to Add Job Template, give this a name, which is called as Validation

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Job.

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The inventory is going to be targeting the Validation Inf, the project is going

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to be the Validation Project, and the playbook is going to be the Validation

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Hive and Play, now the credentials to log into the machine is going to be MyC

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reds, select that, then I will just tick Privilege Escalation, and then select

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Save.

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Once I've done that, I can scroll on down and click Launch, and that should now

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launch the playbook.

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The open appears I happen to have some type of syntax error within my playbook,
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The open appears I happen to have some type of syntax error within my playbook,

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so that's my fault right there, let me go and correct that.

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Let's go back to the actual repository, let's go into Validation Play.

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Open, I can see actually here, but I've done wrong, I have my quotation mark

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here, and I didn't actually open it, so if I go in and edit this file, let me

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just get rid of that, and now I'll just commit the changes.

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Let me just go back to Answerable, let's go to My Templates once again, so I'll

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just delete this temporarily, okay.

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And in fact before I do that, I want to go to my projects in my Validation

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Project, and I actually want to synchronize the change because there has been

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an update, so let's go and click Sync here, and that will pull down any changes
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an update, so let's go and click Sync here, and that will pull down any changes

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, including any differences in the syntax, and now if I go to My Templates, I

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will just add the Job Template, again just a Validation Job, Infantory, is Val

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idation Inf, Project is Validation Project, which is now being synchronized and

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updated.

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We use the same playbook, choose the credentials of My Creds, scroll on down,

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choose privilege escalation, and save, scroll on down, and then choose launch.

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So we can see the job happens to be successful, we can go to the details and

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then look at the output, there we have all the output right here, if we go to
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then look at the output, there we have all the output right here, if we go to

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our devices, so in the case of the yellow box, if I go into the temp directory

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and do an LS, we can see we actually have the AAP hyphen Validation Text file,

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and again over on the blue box, which was also part of the nuggets group.

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If I see the n to the temp directory and do an LS, indeed we can see we also

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have that same text file, so that is us for our validation challenge on the Ans

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ible Automation Platform Automation Control Learn, I hope it has been

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informative for you, and I'd like to thank you for viewing.