We are building up a good foundation for what Ansible is all about and how it fits together. Back in Chapter 3 while talking about inventories, we touched on the concept of variables – defining a variable named http_port with a value of 8080 to the group of hosts referred to as webservers. Since then, that variable has not been used, as there has been no obvious use case – but as the complexity of the playbook increases, it will become apparent that variables are of major ...
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S. R. Smith, P. MembreyBeginning Ansible Concepts and Applicationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8173-4_66. It’s All Variable, That’s a Fact!
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