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

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8. Working with Files and Templates

Andrew Mallett¹  

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Peterborough, UK

 

We have been able to deliver the sudoers files for the tux and ansible user accounts and we are well aware that files can be distributed with Ansible. Although this is good for some files, it may not be adequate for many other files. Where files contain many lines and options, we may prefer just to change the lines that we need and not the complete file. Delivering a complete file would provide a single monolithic solution, whereas we can meet a variety of needs by configuring the options ...