Questions

Let's try to wrap up some of the essential concepts we learned about in this chapter by completing the following quiz:

1. What are idempotent operations or commands in Ansible?
2. You want to set up passwordless authentication with your managed hosts. What steps should you follow?
3. What is the ad hoc command for checking the communication with all your managed hosts?
4. Enumerate a few Ansible modules. Try to think of a configuration management scenario where you could use each module.
5. What is the ad hoc command for running an arbitrary shell operation or process on a remote host, such as cat /etc/passwd?
6. Write a simple playbook with a single task using the ping module.
7. Write a playbook for copying your current directory to a remote host.
8. You must deploy secret API keys to every host into a well-defined location, each host with its own API key. How would you design and implement this functionality?
9. Think of a simple playbook that monitors...