Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Using Ansible

Once you have Ansible set up, there are two ways to use it:

• Ad-hoc commands: You can execute a command on the remote host using Ansible's command-line tool.
• Using playbooks: You can write your own file configuration for all or specific hosts or host groups. For this task, you can use YAML configuration specification language.

YAML (https://yaml.org/) is the syntax used for Ansible playbooks and other files. The YAML documentation (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/YAMLSyntax.html) contains the full specifications of the syntax.

YAML is a format for saving data objects within a tree structure. Normally, it is used to define configuration files, although it is also possible to serialize objects, that ...