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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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Fabio Alessandro Locati Fabio Alessandro Locati
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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

Sending emails with Ansible

It's frequent that a user needs to be promptly notified about an action that an Ansible Playbook performs. This can be either because it's important that this user knows about it, or because there is an automated system that has to be notified in order to (not) start some procedure.

The easiest and most common way of alerting people is to send emails. Ansible allows you to send emails from your playbook using a mail module. You can use this module in between any of your tasks and notify your user whenever required. Also, in some cases, you cannot automate each and every thing because either you lack the authority or it requires some manual checking and confirmation. If this is the case, you can notify the responsible user that Ansible has done its job and it's time for them to perform their duty. Let's use the mail module to notify...

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