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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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Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible

Ansible is, at its heart, a simple framework that pushes a small program called an Ansible module to target nodes. Modules are at the heart of Ansible and are responsible for performing all of the automation's hard work. The Ansible framework goes beyond this, however, and also includes plugins and dynamic inventory management, as well as tying all of this together with playbooks to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, network automation, and much more, as shown:

Ansible only needs to be installed on the management node; from there, it distributes ...

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