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Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818780
Pages 540 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
James Freeman James Freeman
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Jesse Keating Jesse Keating
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: The System Architecture and Design of Ansible 3. Chapter 2: Migrating from Earlier Ansible Versions 4. Chapter 3: Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible 5. Chapter 4: Ansible and Windows – Not Just for Linux 6. Chapter 5: Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX 7. Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks
8. Chapter 6: Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates 9. Chapter 7: Controlling Task Conditions 10. Chapter 8: Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles 11. Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Ansible 12. Chapter 10: Extending Ansible 13. Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible
14. Chapter 11: Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Deployments 15. Chapter 12: Infrastructure Provisioning 16. Chapter 13: Network Automation 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. Ansible can communicate with Windows hosts using:

    a) SSH

    b) WinRM

    c) Both of the above

  2. Ansible can reliably be run from Windows:

    a) Natively

    b) Using Python for Windows

    c) Through Cygwin

    d) Through WSL or WSL2

  3. The ansible.builtin.file module can be used to manipulate files on both Linux and Windows hosts:

    a) True

    b) False

  4. Windows machines can have Ansible automation run on them with no initial setup:

    a) True

    b) False

  5. The package manager for Windows is called:

    a) Bournville

    b) Cadbury

    c) Chocolatey

    d) RPM

  6. Ansible modules for Windows run their commands by default using:

    a) PowerShell

    b) cmd.exe

    c) Bash for Windows

    d) WSL

    e) Cygwin

  7. You can run Windows commands directly even if a module with the functionality you need does not exist:

    a) True

    b) False

  8. When manipulating files and directories on Windows with Ansible, you should:

    a) Use \ for Windows path references, and / for files on the Linux host

    b) Use / for all paths

  9. Special characters in Windows filenames should...
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