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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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The omnipotent with statement

Iterating plain lists, parsing dictionaries, looping a sequence of numbers, parsing through a path and selectively copying files, or just picking up a random item from a list could be achieved using the "Swiss knife" utility, with statement. The with statements take the following form:

with_xxx

Here, the xxx parameter is the type of data that needs to be looped, for example, items, dictionaries, and so on.

The following table lists the types of data that the with statement can iterate:

Construct

Data type

Description

with_items

Array

This is used to loop array items. For example, this is used to create a group of users, directories, or to install a list of packages.

with_nested

Nested loops

This is used to parse multidimensional arrays. For example, to create a list of MySQL users and grant them access to a group of databases.

with_dict

Hashes

This is used to parse a dictionary of key-value pairs and create virtual hosts.

with_fileglobs...

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