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Learning Ansible 2.7

You're reading from   Learning Ansible 2.7 Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954333
Length 266 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Automating Simple Tasks 4. Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment
5. Scaling to Multiple Hosts 6. Handling Complex Deployment 7. Going Cloud 8. Getting Notification from Ansible 9. Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible
10. Creating a Custom Module 11. Debugging and Error Handling 12. Complex Environments 13. Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible
14. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises 15. Getting Started with AWX 16. Working with AWX Users, Permissions, and Organizations 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating new AWX projects

AWX assumes that you save your playbooks somewhere, and to be able to use them in AWX, we need to create a project.

A project is basically the AWX placeholder for a repository containing Ansible resources (roles and playbooks).

When you go in the Projects section, in the left-hand menu bar, you'll see something like the following:

As you can see, a Demo Project is already in place (the installer created it for us!) and it is backed by a Git repository.

On the left-hand side of the project name, a white circle is present, and represents that the specific project has never been pulled. If a green circle were present, it would mean that the project has been pulled successfully. A pulsing green circle means that a pull is in progress, while a red stop sign means that something went wrong.

In the same line of the project, there are three buttons:

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