Enhance flask role to update local /etc/hosts for appdb1 resolution

Author: tonykay

ansible.cfg

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [defaults]
-# inventory                   = hosts
+inventory                   = hosts
 retry_files_enabled         = false
 
 stdout_callback             = default

provision_app_tier.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
+- name: Get database IP address with hostvars for app servers
+  hosts: database_servers
+  gather_facts: true
+  tags:
+    - application_servers
+
+  tasks: []
+
 - name: Deploy, configure, and populate flask repo and virtualenv
   hosts: app_servers
   become: true
-  gather_facts: false
+  gather_facts: true
   tags:
     - application_servers
 

roles/flask/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
 ---
+- name: Add appdb1 IP address to app servers /etc/hosts
+  lineinfile:
+    dest: /etc/hosts
+    regexp: '.*appdb1$'
+    line: "{{ hostvars['appdb1']['ansible_default_ipv4']['address'] }} appdb1"
+    state: present
+
 - name: Create flask user
   user:
     name: "{{ flask_user }}"

smoke_test.yml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
     - name: Check webserver for correct response
       uri:
-        url: "http://frontend1.{{ GUID }}.example.opentlc.com/ping"
+        url: "http://frontend1/ping"
         return_content: yes
       until: '"alive" in result.content'
       retries: 10