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Learn Ansible

You're reading from   Learn Ansible Automate your cloud infrastructure, security configuration, and application deployment with Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835088913
Length 414 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introducing, Installing, and Running Ansible FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Installing and Running Ansible 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Ansible Galaxy 4. Chapter 3: The Ansible Commands 5. Part 2: Deploying Applications
6. Chapter 4: Deploying a LAMP Stack 7. Chapter 5: Deploying WordPress 8. Chapter 6: Targeting Multiple Distributions 9. Chapter 7: Ansible Windows Modules 10. Part 3: Network and Cloud Automation
11. Chapter 8: Ansible Network Modules 12. Chapter 9: Moving to the Cloud 13. Chapter 10: Building Out a Cloud Network 14. Chapter 11: Highly Available Cloud Deployments 15. Chapter 12: Building Out a VMware Deployment 16. Part 4: Ansible Workflows
17. Chapter 13: Scanning Your Ansible Playbooks 18. Chapter 14: Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible 19. Chapter 15: Using Ansible with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps 20. Chapter 16: Introducing Ansible AWX and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 21. Chapter 17: Next Steps with Ansible 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running the playbook

There are no changes to our site.yml file, meaning that we need to run the following command to run the playbook:

$ ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml

There is way too much output to cover here, but I will include some of the highlights from the playbook execution, starting with the gathering of the facts:

TASK [Gathering Facts] ************************************
ok: [Debian]
ok: [RedHat]

Now that Ansible knows about our two hosts, it makes a start on running the tasks; here are the updated ones from the Stack Install role:

TASK [roles/stack_install : update apt-cache and upgrade packages] *************
skipping: [RedHat]
changed: [Debian]

As you can see, this was the apt one, and the dnf one looks like this:

TASK [roles/stack_install : update all of the installed packages] **************
skipping: [Debian]
changed: [RedHat]

Now, moving onto the Stack Config role, this is where tasks are being run on both distributions:

TASK [roles/stack_config...
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