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Use case 3 – services (systemd) management

In this use case, we will use an Ansible playbook to automatically set up and configure some system services on multiple hosts. The following lines of code show how to make sure a service is installed and then how to carry out a configuration check to make sure it is well-configured. Finally, we start the service and enable it to start upon system startup:

---- name: Setup and configured recommended Linux services  hosts: Linux  become: yes  gather_facts: yes  tasks:    - name: Install a list of services on Linux hosts      package:          name: '{{ item }}'         state: latest      with_items:         - ntp         - tzdate         - autofs    - name: Fix time zone on Red Hat 6      lineinfile:          path: /etc/sysconfig/clock         line: "ZONE='Europe/London'" state: ...