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Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

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Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With Ansible, even complex tasks can be handled easier than before. In this book, you will learn about the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible 2 by diving deeply into topics such as installation (Linux, BSD, and Windows Support), playbooks, modules, various testing strategies, provisioning, deployment, and orchestration. In this book, you will get accustomed with the new features of Ansible 2 such as cleaner architecture, task blocks, playbook parsing, new execution strategy plugins, and modules. You will also learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as AWS. The book ends with the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy, where you will learn to interact Ansible with different OSes to speed up your work to previously unseen levels By the end of the book, you’ll able to leverage the Ansible parameters to create expeditious tasks for your organization by implementing the Ansible 2 techniques and paradigms.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Ansible 2 Second Edition
Credits
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Preface

Jinja2 templates


Jinja2 is a widely-used and fully-featured template engine for Python. Let's look at some syntax that will help us with Ansible. This paragraph does not want to be a replacement for the official documentation, but its goal is to teach you some components that you'll find very useful when using them with Ansible.

Variables

As we have seen, we can print variable content simply with the '{{ VARIABLE_NAME }}' syntax. If we want to print just an element of an array we can use '{{ ARRAY_NAME['KEY'] }}', and if we want to print a property of an object, we can use '{{ OBJECT_NAME.PROPERTY_NAME }}'.

So we can improve our previous static page in the following way:

<html> 
    <body> 
        <h1>Hello World!</h1> 
        <p>This page was created on {{ ansible_date_time.date }}.</p> 
    </body> 
</html> 

Filters

From time to time, we may want to change the style of a string a little bit, without writing specific...