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Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition - Fourth Edition
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Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition - Fourth Edition

by James Freeman, Jesse Keating
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
540 pages
11h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: Migrating from Earlier Ansible Versions

As Ansible has grown over the years, certain headaches have presented themselves to the team that develops and manages the Ansible code base. In many ways, these headaches have been the price of Ansible's own growth and success, and have resulted in a need to structure the code a little differently. Indeed, anyone with a little prior experience of Ansible from versions before 2.10 will have noticed that our example code presented in this book looks a little different, along with a new term, Collections.

In this chapter, we will explain these changes in detail, along with how they came about. We will then take you through some practical examples so you can see how these changes work in the real ...

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ISBN: 9781801818780