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Ansible Playbook Essentials

You're reading from   Ansible Playbook Essentials Design automation blueprints to manage your multitier infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398293
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gourav Shah Gourav Shah
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface Setting Up the Learning Environment 1. Blueprinting Your Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 2. Going Modular with Ansible Roles 3. Separating Code and Data – Variables, Facts, and Templates 4. Bringing In Your Code – Custom Commands and Scripts 5. Controlling Execution Flow – Conditionals 6. Iterative Control Structures – Loops 7. Node Discovery and Clustering 8. Encrypting Data with Vault 9. Managing Environments 10. Orchestrating Infrastructure with Ansible A. References
Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about what Ansible playbooks are, what components those are made up of, and how to blueprint your infrastructure with it. We also did a primer on YAML—the language used to create plays. You learned about how plays map tasks to hosts, how to create a host inventory, how to filter hosts with patterns, and how to use modules to perform actions on our systems. We then created a simple playbook as a proof of concept.

In the upcoming chapter, we will start refactoring our code to create reusable and modular chunks of code, and call them roles.

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