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

by Andrew Mallett
March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
3h 25m
English
Apress
Content preview from 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_6

6. Managing Users with Ansible Playbooks

Andrew Mallett1  
(1)
Peterborough, UK
 

Although we have already created a new user with an ad hoc command, we haven’t done the same with a Playbook. Creating users within a Playbook definition means those ad hoc steps become more prescriptive and will happen in the same way on each execution, importantly, without omissions. Even though our three hosts have the dedicated Ansible user account, we can provision new systems as they come online in a consistent manner using Playbooks.

In this chapter you will learn to write Playbooks ...

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