In this section we will use include and import module to add another tasks or complete playbook into another playbook. include module Use include module to add tasks to the playbook We can create
Blocks in Ansible allow you to logically group a set of tasks together, primarily for one of two purposes. One might be to apply conditional logic to an entire set of tasks. We can use
Ansible tags are another great feature which can help you execute respective tasks from the playbook. By default all the tasks from the playbook are executed but with tags we can control this behaviour and
Oftentimes, we will want to perform a single task, but use that single task to iterate over a set of data. For example, you might not want to create one user account but 10. Or
Sometimes you want a task to run only when a change is made on a machine. For example, you may want to restart a service if a task updates the configuration of that service, but
Control structures refer to anything and everything that have an effect on a program's execution flow. Control structures are mainly of the following two types: Conditional Iterative At times, we need to execute code conditionally
In this section we will learn about different operators we can use with Ansible playbooks to perform different tasks. For mathematical operations we can use Arithmetic operators, similarly for comparison we can use comparison and
Now that you are familiar with writing ansible playbooks, in this section we will use Visual Studio Code Editor to write playbooks instead of CLI. You will need GUI based Linux environment for this part
Overview on Ansible In one liner "Ansible is a super-simple automation platform that is agentless and extensible." It is an open source tool (with enterprise editions available) developed using Python and runs on Windows, Mac,