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Learning Ansible 2.7

You're reading from   Learning Ansible 2.7 Automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954333
Length 266 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible
2. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Automating Simple Tasks 4. Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment
5. Scaling to Multiple Hosts 6. Handling Complex Deployment 7. Going Cloud 8. Getting Notification from Ansible 9. Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible
10. Creating a Custom Module 11. Debugging and Error Handling 12. Complex Environments 13. Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible
14. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises 15. Getting Started with AWX 16. Working with AWX Users, Permissions, and Organizations 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

The check mode

The check mode (also known as the dry-run or no-op mode) will run your playbook in a no-operation mode—that is, it will not apply any changes to the remote host; instead, it will just show the changes that will be introduced when a task is run. Whether the check mode is actually enabled or not depends on each module. There are few commands that you may find interesting. All of these commands will have to be run in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules, or where your Ansible module folder is (different paths could be possible based on the operating system you are using as well as the way you installed Ansible).

To count the number of available modules on your installation, you can perform this command:

find . -type f | grep '.py$' | grep -v '__init__' | wc -l  

With Ansible 2.7.2, the result of this command is 2095, since Ansible...

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