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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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Ansible Galaxy and Community Roles

In the previous chapter, we showed you how to create your own roles, guided by Ansible norms and best practices. There's no need to reinvent the wheel; instead, we can look for what already has been created and use it or alter it to accommodate our needs. This chapter will provide a brief introduction to Ansible Galaxy, both the command and the repository. We will learn how to upload a role that we created to the repository, search for popular community roles to download, set up, and use, and troubleshoot them as well.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to Ansible Galaxy
  • Uploading a role to Ansible Galaxy
  • The best practices of searching for community roles
  • Setting up and using a community ...
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ISBN: 9781789532937