Technical requirements

The following items are necessary for following along with the chapter if you would like to gain hands-on knowledge of the systems.

Setting up GitHub access

Please refer to Chapter 1, Block Storage – Learning How to Provision Block Storage on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, for information about how to gain access to this book’s GitHub repository. You will find the Ansible automation playbooks for this chapter at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Red-Hat-Certified-Specialist-in-Services-Management-and-Automation-EX358-Exam-Guide/tree/main/Chapter03. Remember these are the suggested playbooks and are not the only way you can write them to make the playbooks work for you.

You can always change them by using raw, shell, or cmd to achieve the same results, but we are demonstrating the best way to accomplish our goals. Also, keep in mind that we are not using the FCQN that is needed in future versions of Ansible, as that will...