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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
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    Vagrant environment up and running

     
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    Inventory file with correct groups

     
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    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

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