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D. BothUsing and Administering Linux: Volume 2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9615-8_30

30. Automation with Ansible

David Both1  
(1)
Raleigh, NC, USA
 

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn

  • What Ansible can add to your automation strategies

  • The Ansible automation strategy

  • To install Ansible

  • How to perform ad hoc Ansible commands from the command line

  • What a playbook is

  • To create a simple playbook that performs configuration updates for a single application

  • To create a playbook that performs Linux updates

My First Day with Ansible

Getting a new computer, whether physical or virtual, up and running for the first time or the 50th is time-consuming ...

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