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Learn Ansible

You're reading from   Learn Ansible Automate cloud, security, and network infrastructure using Ansible 2.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998758
Length 578 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Russ McKendrick Russ McKendrick
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to Ansible FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Running Ansible 3. The Ansible Commands 4. Deploying a LAMP Stack 5. Deploying WordPress 6. Targeting Multiple Distributions 7. The Core Network Modules 8. Moving to the Cloud 9. Building Out a Cloud Network 10. Highly Available Cloud Deployments 11. Building Out a VMware Deployment 12. Ansible Windows Modules 13. Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP 14. Deploying WPScan and OWASP ZAP 15. Introducing Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX 16. Ansible Galaxy 17. Next Steps with Ansible 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 3, The Ansible Commands

  1. Of the commands that provide information about your host inventory that we have covered in this chapter, which ships with Ansible by default?

The ansible-inventory command

  1. True or false: Variable files that have strings encrypted with Ansible Vault will work with versions of Ansible lower than 2.4.

False

  1. What command would you run to get an example of how you should call the yum module as part of your task?

You would use the ansible-doc command

  1. Explain why you would want to run single modules against hosts within your inventory.

You would use a single module if you want to use Ansible to run an ad hoc command against several hosts in a controlled way.

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