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Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition Automate configuration management and overcome deployment challenges with Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818780
Length 540 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Jesse Keating Jesse Keating
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James Freeman James Freeman
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: The System Architecture and Design of Ansible FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Migrating from Earlier Ansible Versions 4. Chapter 3: Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible 5. Chapter 4: Ansible and Windows – Not Just for Linux 6. Chapter 5: Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX 7. Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks
8. Chapter 6: Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates 9. Chapter 7: Controlling Task Conditions 10. Chapter 8: Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles 11. Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Ansible 12. Chapter 10: Extending Ansible 13. Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible
14. Chapter 11: Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments 15. Chapter 12: Infrastructure Provisioning 16. Chapter 13: Network Automation 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. What level of verbosity would you need to launch Ansible with to see details such as connection attempts?

    a) Level 3 or above

    b) Level 2 or above

    c) Level 1 or above

    d) Level 4

  2. Why should you be careful with verbosity levels above level one if you are using sensitive data in your playbook?

    a) Higher verbosity levels don't support the use of vaults.

    b) Higher verbosity levels may log sensitive data to the console and/or log file.

    c) Higher verbosity levels will print SSH passwords.

  3. Ansible can be centrally configured to log its output to a file by:

    a) Using the ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH environment variable

    b) Using the log_path directive in ansible.cfg

    c) Redirecting the output of each playbook run to a file

    d) All of these

  4. The name of the module used for variable introspection is:

    a) ansible.builtin.analyze

    b) ansible.builtin.introspect

    c) ansible.builtin.debug

    d) ansible.builtin.print

  5. When referencing subelements in Ansible variables, which syntax is the safest to...
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