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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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Using check mode

Although you might be confident in the code you have written, it still pays to test it before running it for real in a production environment. In such cases, it is a good idea to be able to run your code, but with a safety net in place. This is what check mode is for. Follow these steps:

  1. First of all, we need to create an easy playbook to test this feature. Let's create a playbook called check-mode.yaml that contains the following content:
---- hosts: localhost  tasks:    - name: Touch a file      file:        path: /tmp/myfile        state: touch
  1. Now, we can run the playbook in the check mode by specifying the --check option in the invocation:
$ ansible-playbook check-mode.yaml --check

This will output everything as if it was really performing ...

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