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Practical Ansible 2

You're reading from   Practical Ansible 2 Automate infrastructure, manage configuration, and deploy applications with Ansible 2.9

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789807462
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabio Alessandro Locati Fabio Alessandro Locati
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James Freeman James Freeman
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Daniel Oh Daniel Oh
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Oh Se Young Oh Se Young
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible 4. Defining Your Inventory 5. Playbooks and Roles 6. Section 2: Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
7. Consuming and Creating Modules 8. Consuming and Creating Plugins 9. Coding Best Practices 10. Advanced Ansible Topics 11. Section 3: Using Ansible in an Enterprise
12. Network Automation with Ansible 13. Container and Cloud Management 14. Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies 15. Getting Started with Ansible Tower 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the various options that Ansible provides so that you can look for problems in your Ansible code. More specifically, you learned how to use host facts to diagnose failures, how to include testing within a playbook, how to use check mode, how to solve host connection issues, how to pass variables from the CLI, how to limit the execution to a subset of hosts, how to flush the code cache, and how to check for bad syntax.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to get started with Ansible Tower.

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