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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 5, Deploying WordPress

  1. Which fact gathered during the setup module execution can we use to tell our playbook how many processors our target host has?

The fact is ansible_processor_count

  1. True or false: Using backref in the lineinfile module makes sure that no changes are applied if the regular expression is not matched.

True

  1. Explain why we would want to build logic into the playbook to check whether WordPress is already installed.

So that we can skip the task that downloads and installs WordPress the next time the playbook is run.

  1. Which module do we use to define variables as part of a playbook run?

The set_fact module

  1. Which argument do we pass to the shell module to have the command we want to run executed in a directory ...
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ISBN: 9781788998758