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Learn Ansible

By : Russ McKendrick
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Learn Ansible

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Ansible has grown from a small, open source orchestration tool to a full-blown orchestration and configuration management tool owned by Red Hat. Its powerful core modules cover a wide range of infrastructures, including on-premises systems and public clouds, operating systems, devices, and services—meaning it can be used to manage pretty much your entire end-to-end environment. Trends and surveys say that Ansible is the first choice of tool among system administrators as it is so easy to use. This end-to-end, practical guide will take you on a learning curve from beginner to pro. You'll start by installing and configuring the Ansible to perform various automation tasks. Then, we'll dive deep into the various facets of infrastructure, such as cloud, compute and network infrastructure along with security. By the end of this book, you'll have an end-to-end understanding of Ansible and how you can apply it to your own environments.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Questions

  1. Which of the following two modules can be used on both a Windows and Linux host, setup or file?
  2. True or false: You can use SSH to access your Windows target.
  3. Explain the type of interface WinRM uses.
  4. Which Python module do you need to install to be able to interact with WinRM on macOS and Linux?
  5. True or false: You can have a separate task to install Chocolatey before you use the win_chocolatey module.
  6. Update the playbook to install additional packages.