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A. MallettRed Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Study Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6861-2_2

2. Working with the Ansible Configuration

Andrew Mallett1  
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Peterborough, UK
 

The configuration file for Ansible controls how the system configuration utility, Ansible, will operate on the managed devices. This may include the way in which rights are escalated and the user account to use in making the connection to the managed device. Do these need to be the same on every project that you work with? Should individual administrators or developers have control over their own configuration? These are good questions, and questions we will try to answer here. Let’s ...

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