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Published inDec 2021
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ISBN-139781801818780
Edition4th Edition
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James Freeman
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James Freeman

James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.
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Jesse Keating
Jesse Keating
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Jesse Keating

Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for over 15 years. He has firsthand experience involving a variety of IT activities, software development, and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences and meetups, and has written many articles on a variety of topics.
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  1. For Ansible releases after 3.0, you would almost always develop a new module and distribute it via which of the following?

    a) The ansible-core project.

    b) Your collection.

    c) An existing collection with overlapping functionality, with the project maintainer's approval.

    d) A role.

    e) b, c, and maybe d only

  2. The easiest way to develop a custom module is to write it in what language?

    a) Bash

    b) Perl

    c) Python

    d) C++

  3. Providing facts from a custom module does what?

    a) Saves you from needing to register the output to a variable and then using set_fact.

    b) Gives your code greater capabilities.

    c) Helps you debug your code.

    d) Shows you how the module is running.

  4. Callback plugins allow you to do what?

    a) Help you call other playbooks.

    b) Easily alter the behavior of Ansible at key operational points without having to alter the ansible-core code.

    c) Provide an efficient means of altering the code's state.

    d) Help you to call back to your playbook during runtime.

  5. To distribute...
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Authors (2)

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James Freeman

James Freeman is an accomplished IT professional with over 25 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than a decade of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, open source, and AWS. As part of this work, he frequently introduces Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. In addition, he has co-authored five books and one video training course on Ansible, facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.
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Jesse Keating

Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has been an active member of the Linux and open source community for over 15 years. He has firsthand experience involving a variety of IT activities, software development, and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences and meetups, and has written many articles on a variety of topics.
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