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Published inSep 2022
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Gineesh Madapparambath
Gineesh Madapparambath
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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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Configuring your text editor for Ansible

Since YAML is highly sensitive to indentation, you need to take extra care while developing and editing playbooks using your text editor. You can use any text editor of your choice to edit Ansible playbooks and configure the editor as needed.

If you can use a GUI editor such as Visual Studio Code or Atom, skip this section as GUI editors can easily be configured with multiple plugins to perform Ansible content development more efficiently. Please refer to https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/other_tools_and_programs.html to find details about tools and programs for Ansible content development. Now, let’s learn how to configure the Vim editor for Ansible YAML files. Use Vim variables to enable or disable the features in the Vim editor:

[ansible@ansible Chapter-02]$ vim install-package.yaml 

Now, press Esc followed by : and type set nu to enable line numbers, as shown in the following screenshot:

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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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