Red Hat RHCE 8 (EX294) Cert Guide

Chapter 3

Setting Up an Ansible Managed Environment

This chapter covers the following subjects:

• Understanding Projects

• Configuring Static Inventory

• Working with Dynamic Inventory

• Managing Settings in ansible.cfg

The following RHCE exam objectives are covered in this chapter:

• Understand core components of Ansible

  • Inventories

  • Configuration files

• Install and configure an Ansible control node

  • Create a static host inventory file

  • Create a configuration file

  • Create and use static inventories to define groups of hosts

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz

The “Do I Know This Already?” quiz allows you to assess whether you should read this entire chapter thoroughly or jump to the “Exam Preparation Tasks” section. If you are in doubt about your answers ...