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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. When creating or deleting VM instances on OpenStack, which inventory host should you reference in your play?

    a) The OpenStack host

    b) localhost

    c) The VM Floating IP address

    d) None of the above

  2. How would you reference a newly created virtual machine in a second play without having to use a dynamic inventory script?

    a) Use ansible.builtin.raw commands.

    b) Use ansible.builtin.shell commands.

    c) Use ansible.builtin.add_host to add the new VM to the in-memory inventory.

    d) You need to use the dynamic inventory plugin.

  3. You can still run dynamic inventory scripts directly in Ansible 4.x and newer, just as you could in Ansible 2.x releases.

    a) True

    b) False

  4. To use a dynamic inventory script, and set its parameters, you would now (assuming the collection is already installed):

    a) Define a YAML inventory file with the plugin name and parameters.

    b) Reference the dynamic inventory script in the -i parameter of ansible/ansible-playbook.

    c) Put the plugin name in your play definition...

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