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Security Automation with Ansible 2
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Security Automation with Ansible 2

by Akash Mahajan, MADHU AKULA
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
364 pages
7h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Ansible modules

Ansible ships with a number of modules (called the module library) that can be executed directly on remote hosts or through playbooks.Tasks in playbooks call modules to do the work. 

Ansible has many modules, most of which are community contributed and maintained. Core modules are maintained by the Ansible core engineering team and will always ship with Ansible itself.

Users can also write their own modules. These modules can control system resources, like services, packages, or files (anything really), or handle executing system commands. Here is the list of modules available by Ansible: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules_by_category.html#module-index. If you use Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash) or Zeal (https://zealdocs.org/ ...
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