You're reading from Ansible for Real-Life Automation A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235417

Length 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Gineesh Madapparambath

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Using Ansible as Your Automation Tool

2. Chapter 1: Ansible Automation – Introduction FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Starting with Simple Automation

4. Chapter 3: Automating Your Daily Jobs

5. Chapter 4: Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development

6. Part 2: Finding Use Cases and Integrations

7. Chapter 5: Expanding Your Automation Landscape

8. Chapter 6: Automating Microsoft Windows and Network Devices

9. Chapter 7: Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms

10. Chapter 8: Helping the Database Team with Automation

11. Chapter 9: Implementing Automation in a DevOps Workflow

12. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Using Ansible

13. Chapter 11: Managing Kubernetes Using Ansible

14. Chapter 12: Integrating Ansible with Your Tools

15. Chapter 13: Using Ansible for Secret Management

16. Part 3: Managing Your Automation Development Flow with Best Practices

17. Chapter 14: Keeping Automation Simple and Efficient

18. Chapter 15: Automating Non-Standard Platforms and Operations

19. Chapter 16: Ansible Automation Best Practices for Production

20. Index

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Collecting system information

In this section, you will extract the required information from ansible_facts and generate HTML reports inside the web server that you created in the previous section.

ansible_facts contains a lot of information about nested dictionaries and lists. Search and go through the content and find the important information you need for your report.

To see the content of ansible_facts, execute the following ad hoc command:

Figure 3.20 – Ansible facts output after using an ad hoc command

Using the less or more commands after the pipe (|) symbol will keep the output on top without you having to scroll to the bottom. It is possible to scroll down or up using the arrow keys or find the text by searching for it (/ + <text>).

Find sample ansible_facts details for a Linux machine at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Ansible-for-Real-life-Automation/tree/main/Chapter-03/node1-ansible-facts.

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