Errata

Ansible: Up and Running

Errata for Ansible: Up and Running

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.

The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
PDF Page 23
Example 2-2

The task copy index.html should use a template module instead of a copy module because the index.html is generated from the templates/index.html.j2 file and is not an actual file under files as the copy command wants.

So that task should look like:
- name: copy index.html
template: src=templates/index.html.j2 dest=/usr/share/nginx/html/index.html mode=0644

 Greg Pearman  Mar 18, 2015 
PDF Page 57
3rd paragraph

It should be"To mark a file as executable, use the chmod +x command"

A + sign instead of a -.

 Alejandro Guirao   Nov 24, 2014 
PDF Page 67
3rd paragraph

Or, if we want to group or hosts by Linux distribution (e.g., Ubuntu, CentOS), we can use the ansible_distribution fact.

Should be:

Or, if we want to group our hosts by Linux distribution (e.g., Ubuntu, CentOS), we can use the ansible_distribution fact.

'or' should be 'our'

 Spotted Dog  Apr 07, 2015 
PDF Page 216
Footnote 18

The text of footnote 18 reads "ubuntu_ami_search". It should read "ec2_ami_search".

 Steven Merrill  Mar 28, 2015