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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. For Ansible releases after 3.0, you would almost always develop a new module and distribute it via which of the following?

    a) The ansible-core project.

    b) Your collection.

    c) An existing collection with overlapping functionality, with the project maintainer's approval.

    d) A role.

    e) b, c, and maybe d only

  2. The easiest way to develop a custom module is to write it in what language?

    a) Bash

    b) Perl

    c) Python

    d) C++

  3. Providing facts from a custom module does what?

    a) Saves you from needing to register the output to a variable and then using set_fact.

    b) Gives your code greater capabilities.

    c) Helps you debug your code.

    d) Shows you how the module is running.

  4. Callback plugins allow you to do what?

    a) Help you call other playbooks.

    b) Easily alter the behavior of Ansible at key operational points without having to alter the ansible-core code.

    c) Provide an efficient means of altering the code's state.

    d) Help you to call back to your playbook during runtime.

  5. To distribute...
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