Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Introducing, Installing, and Running Ansible
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Installing and Running Ansible
Technical requirements
My story: part one
Ansible’s story
What is Ansible?
Ansible, the software
Ansible versus other tools
Declarative versus imperative
Configuration versus orchestration
Looking at some code
My story: part two
Installing and running Ansible
Installing on macOS
Installing on Linux
Installing on Windows 11
Launching a virtual machine
An introduction to playbooks
Host inventories
Playbooks
Summary
Further reading
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Exploring Ansible Galaxy
Technical requirements
The Ansible release life cycle
The life cycle of a release
Introduction to Ansible Galaxy
What is a role?
Publishing to and using Ansible Galaxy roles
Publishing ...
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