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Mastering Ansible
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Mastering Ansible

by Jesse Keating
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
236 pages
4h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Playbook parsing

The whole purpose of an inventory source is to have systems to manipulate. The manipulation comes from playbooks (or in the case of ansible ad hoc execution, simple single task plays). You should already have a base understanding of playbook construction so we won't spend a lot of time covering that, however, we will delve into some specifics of how a playbook is parsed. Specifically, we will cover the following:

  • Order of operations
  • Relative path assumptions
  • Play behavior keys
  • Host selection for plays and tasks
  • Play and task names

Order of operations

Ansible is designed to be as easy as possible for a human to understand. The developers strive to strike the best balance between human comprehension and machine efficiency. To that end, ...

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