Beginning Ansible Concepts and Application: Provisioning, Configuring, and Managing Servers, Applications, and Their Dependencies

© Peter Membrey and Shaun R Smith 2022

S. R. Smith, P. MembreyBeginning Ansible Concepts and Applicationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8173-4_4

4. Your First Playbook

Shaun R Smith¹   and Peter Membrey²

(1)

Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong

(2)

Kowloon, Hong Kong

 

It is assumed at this stage that you have followed along with the exercises in the previous chapters and therefore have a working

1. 1.

   Vagrant environment up and running

    
2. 2.

   Inventory file with correct groups

    
3. 3.

   Ansible configuration file

    

If that is not the case, please download the source code accompanying this book and copy the files from the Chapter 3 directory.

Modules and Tasks

In the previous chapters, we introduced you to the concept of a module , and we made use of a module called