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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. What is the name of the Python module we need to install to support the digital_ocean module?
  2. True or false: You should always encrypt sensitive values such as the DigitalOcean personal access token.
  3. Which filter are we using to find the ID of the SSH key we need to launch our Droplet with?
  4. State and explain why we used the unique_name option in the digital_ocean task.
  5. What is the correct syntax for accessing variables from another Ansible host?
  6. True or false: The add_server module is used to add our Droplet to the host group.
  7. Try launching an Ubuntu Droplet and install WordPress on it; the image ID to use is ubuntu-16-04-x64 and don't forget to change the ansible_python_interpreter value.