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Learn Ansible
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Learn Ansible

by Russ McKendrick
June 2018
Beginner
578 pages
13h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3, The Ansible Commands

  1. Of the commands that provide information about your host inventory that we have covered in this chapter, which ships with Ansible by default?

The ansible-inventory command

  1. True or false: Variable files that have strings encrypted with Ansible Vault will work with versions of Ansible lower than 2.4.

False

  1. What command would you run to get an example of how you should call the yum module as part of your task?

You would use the ansible-doc command

  1. Explain why you would want to run single modules against hosts within your inventory.

You would use a single module if you want to use Ansible to run an ad hoc command against several hosts in a controlled way.

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ISBN: 9781788998758