Mastering Ansible

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "When ansible or ansible-playbook is directed at an executable file for an inventory source, Ansible will execute that script with a single argument, --list."

A block of code is set as follows:

- name: add new node into runtime inventory
  add_host:
    name: newmastery.example.name
    groups: web
    ansible_ssh_host: 192.168.10.30

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, ...