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Luca Berton is an Ansible automation expert, author of 8 Ansible books published by Apress and Leanpub including "Ansible for VMware by Examples" and "Ansible for Kubernetes by Example", and creator of the Ansible Pilot YouTube channel. He shares practical automation knowledge through tutorials, books, and video courses to help IT professionals and DevOps engineers master infrastructure automation.

Deploy Squid Proxy on RedHat Systems with Ansible — Video Tutorial

Learn to deploy and configure a Squid proxy server on RedHat-like systems using Ansible. Follow our step-by-step guide with simple Ansible code examples.

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  • How to deploy a proxy server squid on RedHat-like systems with Ansible?
  • Deploy a proxy server squid on RedHat-like
  • code
  • execution
  • idempotency
  • before execution
  • after execution
  • Conclusion
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How to deploy a proxy server squid on RedHat-like systems with Ansible? I'm going to show you a live Playbook with some simple Ansible code. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot. Deploy a proxy server squid on RedHat-like - install packages => `ansible.builtin.yum` - configuration => `ansible.builtin.template` - start service => `ansible.builtin.service` - open firewall => `ansible.posix.firewalld` Today we're talking about how to deploy a proxy server squid on RedHat-like Linux systems. The full process requires four steps that you could automate with different Ansible modules. Firstly you need to install the `squid` package and dependency using the `ansible.builtin.yum` Ansible module. Secondly, you need to create the custom configuration with the `ansible.builtin.template` Ansible module. Thirsty you need to start the `squid` service and enable it on boot and all the dependant using the `ansible.builtin.service` Ansible module. Fourthly you need to open the relevant firewall service-related ports using the `ansible.posix.firewalld` Ansible module. ## Playbook Deploy a proxy server squid on RedHat-like with Ansible Playbook. code - proxy_redhat.yml ```yaml --- - name: setup proxy hosts: all become: true vars: squid_port: 3128 localnet: "192.168.0.0/24" tasks: - name: squid installed ansible.builtin.yum: name: squid state: latest - name: squid configuration ansible.builtin.template: src: "templates/squid.conf.j2" dest: "/etc/squid/squid.conf" - name: squid service enabled ansible.builtin.service: name: squid enabled: true state: started - name: open firewall ansible.posix.firewalld: port: "{{ squid_port }}/tcp" state: enabled immediate: true permanent: true ``` - templates/squid.conf.j2 ```txt acl localnet src {{ localnet }} acl SSL_ports port 443 acl CONNECT method CONNECT acl Safe_ports port 21 acl Safe_ports port 80 acl Safe_ports port 443 http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow localhost manager http_access deny manager http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost http_access deny all http_port {{ squid_port }} coredump_dir /var/spool/squid 10000 16 256 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 ``` execution ```bash ansible-pilot $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/proxy/inventory services/proxy_redhat.yml PLAY [setup proxy] ******************************************************************************** TASK [Gathering Facts] **************************************************************************** ok: [proxy.example.com] TASK [squid installed] **************************************************************************** changed: [proxy.example.com] TASK [squid configuration] **********************

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  • Author: Luca Berton
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Read time: 5 min
  • Category: installation

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