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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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Executing multiple modules using the command line

As this chapter is all about modules and how to create them, let's recap how to use modules. We've done this throughout this book, but we have not drawn attention to some of the specifics related to how they work. One of the key things we have not discussed is how the Ansible engine talks to its modules and vice versa, so let's explore this now.

As ever, when working with Ansible commands, we need an inventory to run our commands against. For this chapter, as our focus is on the modules themselves, we will use a very simple and small inventory, as shown here:

[frontends]frt01.example.com

[appservers]app01.example.com

Now, for the first part of our recap, you can run a module very easily via ...

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