Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Using playbooks

Playbooks basically allow us to manage the configuration of the deployment that we are going to make in the nodes. In them, we describe the configuration, but they also allow us to orchestrate a series of steps or tasks to follow.

In the playbook definition, we can use tasks, groups of machines, and variables; group variables; assign values to variables, conditional, loops, facts (information obtained by Ansible); get notifications and execution of actions based on them, apply labels to tasks; do includes; use templates (for the configuration files of the services, for example, of Apache or MySQL), wait for conditions, encrypt files that contain sensitive information, and include those files in a version control tool without ...