Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Managing services in Ansible

Managing services using Ansible is a breeze. Service management can be a complex operation and is usually highly dependent on the OS and system type. However, with Ansible's service module, we can easily stop, start, and restart services. This integration provides a high level of reliability and abstracts the fundamental OS-level operations that must be performed. Let's take a look at the Ansible service module and see its capabilities:

# Example action to start service httpd, if not running- service:    name: httpd    state: started# Example action to stop service httpd, if running- service:    name: httpd    state: stopped# Example action to restart service httpd, in all cases- service:    name: httpd    state: restarted# Example ...