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_6

6. It’s All Variable, That’s a Fact!

Shaun R Smith¹   and Peter Membrey²

(1)

Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong

(2)

Kowloon, Hong Kong

 

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 ...