Ansible Linux modules

We will start by exploring the Linux modules. These are a selection of the most commonly used modules to manage the operating systems, packages, applications, and services running on the Linux environment. We will be covering the two big Linux families, Debian and Red Hat. In this section, we will give a brief overview of the module and its useful functionalities and features. We will also look at a sample of a playbook of one of the interesting uses of this module.

Note

We will not be covering all of the available modules that are supported in the Ansible releases. You can find full documentation for these either by running the ansible-doc command or on the official Ansible documentation in the modules index section. In this book, we will try to cover some of the community and galaxy modules that are needed to perform some tasks.

Some modules require some specific technologies to be installed on the remote hosts. Most of those requirements are usually preinstalled as...