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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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Summary

Ansible is a very powerful and versatile automation engine that can be used for a wide variety of tasks. Understanding the basics of how to work it is of paramount importance, before addressing the more complex challenges of playbook creation and large-scale automation. Ansible relies on a language called YAML, a simple-to-read (and write) syntax that supports the rapid development of easy-to-read and easy-to-maintain code and inherits a number of valuable features from the Python language that it is written in, including Jinja2 filtering.

In this chapter, you learned the fundamentals of working with various Ansible programs. You then learned about the YAML syntax and the ways that you can break down your code into manageable chunks ...

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