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Published inSep 2022
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Gineesh Madapparambath
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Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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Collecting system information

In this section, you will extract the required information from ansible_facts and generate HTML reports inside the web server that you created in the previous section.

ansible_facts contains a lot of information about nested dictionaries and lists. Search and go through the content and find the important information you need for your report.

To see the content of ansible_facts, execute the following ad hoc command:

Figure 3.20 – Ansible facts output after using an ad hoc command

Using the less or more commands after the pipe (|) symbol will keep the output on top without you having to scroll to the bottom. It is possible to scroll down or up using the arrow keys or find the text by searching for it (/ + <text>).

Find sample ansible_facts details for a Linux machine at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Ansible-for-Real-life-Automation/tree/main/Chapter-03/node1-ansible-facts.

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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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