Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Study Guide: Ansible Automation for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Exam (EX294)

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A. MallettRed Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Study Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6861-2_5

5. Writing YAML and Basic Playbooks

Andrew Mallett¹  

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Peterborough, UK

 

Ad hoc commands in Ansible are awesome; look how we were able to easily create the user account across all three systems. However, we must not let ourselves become too caught up in the excitement of what we have achieved; ad hoc commands were part of our journey but not the destination. So, let us celebrate that which we have achieved but not rest too long; we will move forward and begin our understanding of Playbooks and the basics of YAML. The first thing to understand is the acronym ...