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Published inDec 2021
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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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Installing additional modules with ansible-galaxy

Most of the time when you work with collections, you won't be building them yourself. There are already 780 available on Ansible Galaxy at the time of writing and, there will probably be many more by the time you read this book. Nonetheless, it is the author's personal belief that we all learn better when we can get our hands dirty, and thus, developing our own, albeit simple, collection was a great way for us to look at how they are put together and how they are referenced.

However, let's focus now on finding and then working with pre-existing collections on Ansible, as this is where your focus is likely to be most of the time. As we have already mentioned, the Ansible 4.3 package includes a set of collections for you to begin your automation journey with, along with the ansible.builtin collection included with the ansible-core package.

If you want to see which collections got installed when you installed Ansible...

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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.
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