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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. Of the commands that provide information about your host inventory that we have covered in this chapter, which ships with Ansible by default?
  2. True or false: Variable files that have strings encrypted with Ansible Vault will work with versions of Ansible lower than 2.4.
  3. What command would you run to get an example of how you should call the yum module as part of your task?
  4. Explain why you would want to run single modules against hosts within your inventory.
  5. Using your own host inventory file, generate a diagram showing the content.