Linux Administration Cookbook

How it works...

Running through what we did in this section, command by command, we'll break down what happened.

$ ansible-galaxy search "java for linux" --author geerlingguy

Initially, we needed to know whether someone had already written an Ansible role to install Java on a box. As it happens, we were able to search for Java for Linux while passing in an author's name, resulting in seven roles being found.

I have a friend who likes to write his own Ansible for a job, but I've always been of the opinion that if a solution already exists (and it's suitable), there's no harm in adopting work that others have written, providing that its license allows you to do so, and your company is fine with it. The open source community is good, and if ...