Lab 7 — Deploy QuickNotes via Ansible

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Goal

Deploy QuickNotes to the Lab 5 VirtualBox VM using Ansible and prove idempotency.

Changes

• Added ansible/inventory.ini for the Lab 5 VM target.
• Added ansible/playbook.yaml to create the quicknotes user, data directory, binary, systemd unit, and service state.
• Added ansible/templates/quicknotes.service.j2 for the QuickNotes systemd service.
• Added the static QuickNotes binary at ansible/files/quicknotes.
• Updated submissions/lab7.md with Task 1, Task 2, and bonus evidence.

Testing

• Ran ansible-playbook -i ansible/inventory.ini ansible/playbook.yaml --syntax-check.
• Ran ansible-playbook -i ansible/inventory.ini ansible/playbook.yaml --check.
• Ran the real playbook and verified QuickNotes was active with systemd.
• Verified health endpoint with curl -s http://localhost:18080/health.
• Re-ran the playbook and confirmed changed=0.
• Changed one template variable and confirmed only the template changed and the restart handler fired.
• Ran --check --diff and captured the rendered systemd unit diff.
• Completed bonus ansible-pull timer test and confirmed VM convergence from Git.

Checklist

• Title is a clear sentence (≤ 70 chars)
• Commits are signed (git log --show-signature)
• submissions/lab7.md updated