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Ansible Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Ansible Quick Start Guide Control and monitor infrastructures of any size, physical or virtual

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532937
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Alibi Mohamed Alibi
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Preface 1. What is Ansible? FREE CHAPTER 2. Ansible Setup and Configuration 3. Ansible Inventory and Playbook 4. Ansible Modules 5. Ansible Automated Infrastructure 6. Ansible Coding for Configuration Management 7. Ansible Galaxy and Community Roles 8. Ansible Advanced Features 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Ansible module return values


Return values are the key feature for monitoring and managing task execution. An administrator can determine the status of each action and run other tasks accordingly, either to fix, improve, or follow up on the bigger job. Ansible modules are fitted with a variety of return values. Each module will have the common values and some extra specific ones for the role performed by the module. These extra return values can be used for numerous functionalities. In Ansible, most return values are used as input for playbook conditions and loops. This scripting allows the pipelining of actions and tasks to achieve an automated configuration management. Ansible basically collects all the useful output data about the action performed by the module and arranges it into variables presented as return values.

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There is no need to learn all the return values of these modules; you can easily get very good documentation about each module using the ansible-doc command. Alternatively...

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