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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 modules overview

When installing Ansible, the user will also receive a very handy set of modules. This set is called a module library. It is a list of predefined functions and actions to be called when using Ansible, either via ad hoc commands or by running playbooks. An Ansible user is not limited to the predefined Ansible modules; they can easily write their own using Python and JSON scripting. The modules that come with the installation of Ansible might be referred to as task plugins or library plugins, but do not mistake these for the actual Ansible plugins, which are the scripts that allow Ansible to interact with other systems, a subject for another chapter.

The Ansible module library comes with its own machine library. Use the ansible-doc command followed by the name of the module to find out more about how it is used and what its output variables...

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