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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)

Chapter 6, Targeting Multiple Distributions

  1. True or false: We need to double-check every task in our playbook, so it will work on both operating systems.

True

  1. Which configuration option allows us to define the path to Python that, Ansible will use?

The option is ansible_python_interpreter

  1. Explain why we need to make changes to the tasks that are configured and interact with the PHP-FPM service.

The path to the configuration files is different and also PHP-FPM runs under a different group by default on Ubuntu

  1. True or false: The package names for each of the operating systems correspond exactly.

False