Practical Network Automation - Second Edition

Section 1 – basic declarations

This section is specific to how the playbook will be executed:

- name: Run ping commands hosts: all gather_facts: false remote_user: test connection: local #no_log: True

As we saw in the execution of the previous playbook, there were certain additional parameters we had to pass for a proper execution of the playbook. In this section, some of those parameters (connection type and username) are already provided, hence a command-line execution of this playbook would look like this:

ansible-playbook -i inventory checklist.yml -k

This is much easier than passing the additional parameters, since the required values are already configured in the playbook.