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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_7

7. Ansible Tests and Variables

Vincent Sesto¹

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Auckland, New Zealand

We’re almost at the end of our project and almost at the end of our book. We hope you keep working through this chapter because there are a lot of extra details we are going to provide you to hopefully make your life and work a little easier.

In this chapter, we’ll provide you with some tools and tips to make your Ansible code and configuration management a little easier. We are going to run through some of the ways you can provide extra details in your deployment code and roles and how to use these extra details to debug your playbooks. We are going to fill in some of the missing information ...

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