Our first playbook

Playbooks are Ansible's blueprint to describe what you would like to do to the hosts using modules. This is where we will be spending the majority of our time as operators when working with Ansible. If you are building a tree house, the playbook will be your manual, the modules will be your tools, while the inventory will be the components that you will be working on when using the tools.

The playbook is designed to be human readable, and is in YAML format. We will look at the common syntax used in the Ansible architecture section. For now, our focus is to run an example playbook to get the look and feel of Ansible.

Originally, YAML was said to mean Yet Another Markup Language, but now, http://yaml.org/ has repurposed the ...

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