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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

You're reading from   Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2 A step-by-step guide to automating all DevOps stages with ease using Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120532
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jonathan McAllister Jonathan McAllister
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Preface 1. DevOps Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuration Management Essentials 3. Installing, Configuring, and Running Ansible 4. Playbooks and Inventory Files 5. Playbooks – Beyond the Fundamentals 6. Jinja in Ansible 7. Ansible Vault 8. Ansible Modules and Libraries 9. Integrating Ansible with CI and CD Solutions 10. Ansible and Docker 11. Extending Ansible 12. Ansible Galaxy

The Ansible Command-Line Interface

Ansible provides a robust command-line interface, which provides users with the ability to run Ansible playbooks, simulate the execution of Ansible playbooks, run ad hoc commands, and much more. In the Ansible galaxy (more to come on that specific pun later in the book), there are two specific types of Ansible commands that can be run. The ansible command allows users to run ad hoc commands, whereas the ansible-playbook command allows the user to execute a set of Ansible playbook instructions against the targeted infrastructure.

This is ambiguous within the documentation, Ansible and Ansible-playbook appear to be symlinks but there are some reports of different functionality between the two. More research is needed before final drafting to ensure accuracy of information reported. For now, there will be a section for Ansible and Ansible-playbook...
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