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Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition Automate configuration management and overcome deployment challenges with Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818780
Length 540 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Jesse Keating Jesse Keating
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James Freeman James Freeman
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: The System Architecture and Design of Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Migrating from Earlier Ansible Versions 4. Chapter 3: Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible 5. Chapter 4: Ansible and Windows – Not Just for Linux 6. Chapter 5: Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX 7. Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks
8. Chapter 6: Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates 9. Chapter 7: Controlling Task Conditions 10. Chapter 8: Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles 11. Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Ansible 12. Chapter 10: Extending Ansible 13. Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible
14. Chapter 11: Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments 15. Chapter 12: Infrastructure Provisioning 16. Chapter 13: Network Automation 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. What is a valid strategy for minimizing disruption when in-place upgrades are performed?

    a) Use the serial mode to alter how many hosts Ansible performs the upgrade on at one time.

    b) Use the limit parameter to alter how many hosts Ansible performs the upgrade on at one time.

    c) Have lots of small inventories, each with just a few hosts in.

    d) Revoke access to the hosts by Ansible.

  2. What is a key benefit of expanding and contracting as an upgrade strategy?

    a) Reduced cloud operating costs.

    b) It fits well with a development-operations (DevOps) culture.

    c) All hosts are newly built for each application deployment or upgrade, reducing the possibility of stale libraries and configurations.

    d) It provides flexibility in your approach to upgrades.

  3. Why would you want to fail fast?

    a) So that you know about your playbook errors as soon as possible.

    b) So that you minimize the damage or disruption caused by a failed play.

    c) So that you can debug your code.

    d) So that you can be...

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