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Ansible Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Ansible Quick Start Guide Control and monitor infrastructures of any size, physical or virtual

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532937
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Alibi Mohamed Alibi
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What is Ansible? FREE CHAPTER 2. Ansible Setup and Configuration 3. Ansible Inventory and Playbook 4. Ansible Modules 5. Ansible Automated Infrastructure 6. Ansible Coding for Configuration Management 7. Ansible Galaxy and Community Roles 8. Ansible Advanced Features 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Ansible roles

This is the section in which we discover Ansible roles and what we can do with them to optimize our automation scripting.

What are Ansible roles?

The ultimate configuration management scripts optimization is to convert simple playbooks into Ansible roles. This gives you the ability to make a set of configuration management tasks modular and reusable, with multiple configurations. It also means that they can be easily shared when required. Ansible roles allow several related tasks, with their variables and dependencies, to be contained in a portable framework. This framework represents the breakdown of a complex playbook into multiple simple files.

An Ansible role is composed of multiple folders, each of which...

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