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This document is indented to demonstrate various playbooks that makes use of different modules and their functionalities. Pinging managed nodes [root@centos9vm ~]# cat inventory ====== […]

Ansible got a set of modules that will allow playbooks to run different operations in managed nodes. This includes configurations to install yum packages using […]

Ansible templates allows users to dynamically generate text-based files using templates, variables, and facts for configuration and other purposes. The difference between Ansible Facts and […]

FACTS are variables related to remote systems.  Ansible has the capability to discover and retrieve certain values from a remote node and store then in […]

Ansible vault is a tool that helps to encrypt, decrypt and manage sensitive data such as passwords, playbooks, files, etc. If a playbook is encrypted, […]

In the below example variables are defined in the host inventory file. [root@centos9vm ~]# cat inventory === === === 192.168.132.129 192.168.132.130 servera.example.com [webservers] servera.example.com serverb.example.com […]

Variables hold values that can be used when playbooks are executed. It can be defined in: Inventory file (host scope) Playbook (play scope) Defined globally […]

In this example we will write a simple playbook in Ansible, that will create a new user in a managed host. For this we need […]

A simple Ansible  inventory file is a txt file that has a list of managed hosts and groups. A simple Inventory can be as follows: […]

The ansible-navigator is a command-line tool which is used for creating, reviewing, running and troubleshooting Ansible content, including playbooks, collections, inventories, documentation and container images. […]