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Published inDec 2021
PublisherPackt
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. Which Ansible module can be used to run tasks from a separate external task file when a playbook is run?

    a) ansible.builtin.import

    b) ansible.builtin.include

    c) ansible.builtin.tasks_file

    d) ansible.builtin.with_tasks

  2. Variable data can be passed to an external task file when it is called:

    a) True

    b) False

  3. The default name of the variable containing the current loop value is:

    a) i

    b) loop_var

    c) loop_value

    d) item

  4. When looping over external task files, it is important to consider setting which special variable to prevent loop variable name collisions?

    a) loop_name

    b) loop_item

    c) loop_var

    d) item

  5. Handlers are generally run:

    a) Once, at the end of the play

    b) Once each, at the end of the pre_tasks, roles/tasks, and post_tasks sections of the play

    c) Once each, at the end of the pre_tasks, roles/tasks, and post_tasks sections of the play and only when notified

    d) Once each, at the end of the pre_tasks, roles/tasks, and post_tasks sections of the play and only when imported...

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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.
Read more about Jesse Keating