Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition Automate configuration management and overcome deployment challenges with Ansible

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818780
Length 540 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Tools
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Jesse Keating Jesse Keating
Author Profile Icon Jesse Keating
Jesse Keating
James Freeman James Freeman
Author Profile Icon James Freeman
James Freeman
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: The System Architecture and Design of Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Migrating from Earlier Ansible Versions 4. Chapter 3: Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible 5. Chapter 4: Ansible and Windows – Not Just for Linux 6. Chapter 5: Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX 7. Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks
8. Chapter 6: Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates 9. Chapter 7: Controlling Task Conditions 10. Chapter 8: Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles 11. Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Ansible 12. Chapter 10: Extending Ansible 13. Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible
14. Chapter 11: Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments 15. Chapter 12: Infrastructure Provisioning 16. Chapter 13: Network Automation 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. Which Ansible module can be used to run tasks from a separate external task file when a playbook is run?

    a) ansible.builtin.import

    b) ansible.builtin.include

    c) ansible.builtin.tasks_file

    d) ansible.builtin.with_tasks

  2. Variable data can be passed to an external task file when it is called:

    a) True

    b) False

  3. The default name of the variable containing the current loop value is:

    a) i

    b) loop_var

    c) loop_value

    d) item

  4. When looping over external task files, it is important to consider setting which special variable to prevent loop variable name collisions?

    a) loop_name

    b) loop_item

    c) loop_var

    d) item

  5. Handlers are generally run:

    a) Once, at the end of the play

    b) Once each, at the end of the pre_tasks, roles/tasks, and post_tasks sections of the play

    c) Once each, at the end of the pre_tasks, roles/tasks, and post_tasks sections of the play and only when notified

    d) Once each, at the end of the pre_tasks, roles/tasks, and post_tasks sections of the play and only when imported...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime