Chapter 2. Ad Hoc Tasks with Ansible
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following recipes:
- Installing an Ansible control node on Ubuntu
- Installing an Ansible control node on CentOS
- Creating an Ansible inventory
- Using the raw module to install
python-simplejson - Installing packages with Ansible
- Restarting services using Ansible
- Executing freeform commands with Ansible
- Managing users with Ansible
- Managing SSH keys with Ansible
Introduction
There is a growing number of automation tools available to DevOps Engineers, each with its individual strengths and weaknesses. Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible; the list seems to grow on a daily basis, as do the capabilities that they offer. Configuration management has become one of the core techniques that help ...
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