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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
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Using Ruby modules


Writing modules in Ruby is as easy as writing a module in Python or bash. You just need to take care of the arguments, errors, return statements, and of course, know basic Ruby! Let's create the library/rsync.rb file with the following code:

    #!/usr/bin/env ruby 
 
    require 'rsync' 
    require 'json' 
 
    src = '' 
    dest = '' 
    ret_msg = '' 
    SUCCESS = '' 
 
    def print_message(state, mdg, key='Failed') 
        message = { 
            key => state, 
            "msg" => msg 
        } 
        print message.to_json 
        exit 1 if state == false 
        exit 0 
    end 
 
    args_file = ARGV[0] 
    data = File.read(args_file) 
    arguments = data.split(" ") 
    arguments.each do |argument| 
        print_message(false, "Argument should be name-value pairs. Example name=foo") if not argument.include("=") 
        field.value = argument.split("=") 
        if field == "src" 
            src = value 
        elseif field == "dest" 
    ...