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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

Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of this chapter:

  1. Ansible brings all the benefits of automation from infrastructure management to the world of network device management.

    a) True

    b) False

  2. When working with a new network device type for the first time, you should always do what?

    a) Perform a factory reset of the device.

    b) Consult the Ansible documentation to learn about which collections and modules support it, and what the requirements for those might be.

    c) Use the ansible.netcommon.network_cli connection protocol.

    d) Use the local connection protocol.

  3. Which execution type is described by Ansible as running its automation code on the remote host directly?

    a) Remote execution

    b) Local execution

  4. Which execution type is described by Ansible as running its automation code on the control node, and then sending the required data over a pre-selected channel (for example, SSH or an HTTP-based API)?

    a) Remote execution

    b) Local execution

  5. Which connection...
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