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Practical Ansible: Configuration Management from Start to Finish

Name: Practical Ansible: Configuration Management from Start to Finish
Author: Vincent Sesto
ISBN: 9781484264850

by Vincent Sesto

December 2020

Intermediate to advanced

276 pages

4h 7m

English

Apress

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V. SestoPractical Ansiblehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6485-0_2

2. Ansible Playbooks

Vincent Sesto¹

(1)

Auckland, New Zealand

I’m hoping by now you can see Ansible is an easy way to remotely control applications and system configurations. But running each command in the command line is not the most efficient way of deploying these changes to our environments. This is where we can introduce playbooks. Ansible playbooks can contain a play or multiple plays and help you automate system configurations in a reusable set of tasks which will step through the implementation of your system into its desired state.

In this chapter, we’re going to introduce playbooks into your configuration management arsenal helping you deploy your ...

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