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Ansible Quick Start Guide
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Ansible Quick Start Guide

by Mohamed Alibi
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
214 pages
5h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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The SELinux control module

On the Red Hat environment, SELinux can be a pain to manage on one machine, let alone on a series of hosts. This Ansible module helps its user with the configuration of the SELinux mode and policy.

This module, along with some others, may require a reboot after performing the task. Ansible will always let the user know if this is the case. Some advanced modules may have an integrated option that initiates a reboot automatically if the host needs it.

As a quick playbook sample, we will ask Ansible to make SELinux permissive:

    - name: change SELinux to permissive      selinux:        policy: targeted        state: permissive

This module requires the libselinux-python library to be installed on the remote hosts to work properly. This ...

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ISBN: 9781789532937