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Practical Ansible 2
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Practical Ansible 2

by Daniel Oh, James Freeman, Fabio Alessandro Locati
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
410 pages
9h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Playbooks and Roles

So far in this book, we have worked mostly with ad hoc Ansible commands for simplicity and to help you to understand the fundamentals. However, the lifeblood of Ansible is most certainly the playbook, which is a logical organization of tasks (think ad hoc commands) in a structure that creates a useful outcome. This might be to deploy a web server on a newly built virtual machine, or it might be to apply a security policy. It might even handle the whole build process for a virtual machine! The possibilities are endless. Ansible playbooks, as we have already covered, are designed to be simple to write and easy to read—they are intended to be self-documenting and, as such, will form a valuable part of your IT processes.

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