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9. Advanced Ansible

Michael Heap

(1)Reading, Berkshire, UK

Well, here we arethe final chapter of Ansible: From Beginner to Pro! After starting at the beginning with an introduction to playbooks and inventory files and working our way through roles, variables, provisioning, orchestration, and testing, we now arrive at our final chapter, where we’ll go through some of the advanced Ansible features. You probably won’t use these on a daily basis; however, they are good to know just in case you need them someday.

Ansible: The Command-Line Tool

In addition to running playbooks with ansible-playbook, Ansible provides the ansible command-line tool for running ad-hoc commands. While I ...

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