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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

Debugging and Error Handling

Like software code, testing infrastructure code is an all-important task. There should ideally be no code floating around in production that has not been tested, especially when you have strict customer SLAs to meet, and this is true even for the infrastructure. In this chapter, we'll look at syntactic checks, testing without applying the code on the machines (the no-op mode), and functional testing for playbooks, which are at the core of Ansible and trigger the various tasks you want to perform on the remote hosts. It is recommended that you integrate some of these into your Continuous Integration (CI) system that you have for Ansible to better test your playbooks. We'll be looking at the following points:

  • Syntax checking
  • Checking mode with and without --diff
  • Functional testing

As part of functional testing, we will be looking at the following...

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