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Ansible Playbook Essentials

You're reading from   Ansible Playbook Essentials Design automation blueprints to manage your multitier infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398293
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gourav Shah Gourav Shah
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface Setting Up the Learning Environment 1. Blueprinting Your Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 2. Going Modular with Ansible Roles 3. Separating Code and Data – Variables, Facts, and Templates 4. Bringing In Your Code – Custom Commands and Scripts 5. Controlling Execution Flow – Conditionals 6. Iterative Control Structures – Loops 7. Node Discovery and Clustering 8. Encrypting Data with Vault 9. Managing Environments 10. Orchestrating Infrastructure with Ansible A. References
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Review questions

Do you think you've understood the chapter well enough? Try answering the following questions to test your understanding:

  1. Roles contain ___ and ___ subdirectories to specify variables/parameters.
  2. How do you specify a dependency on another role?
  3. When we add roles to a play, why is it not required that we use the include directives? How do the tasks, handlers, and so on, get added to the play automatically?
  4. Why do we have a separate section for handlers if they resemble regular tasks?
  5. Which module can be used to copy over static files to destination hosts?
  6. How do you specify the tasks to be run before applying a role in a playbook?
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