Ansible¶

Content¶

In order to start with Ansible, read the following sections of Ansible Introduction:
- Installation
- Getting Started
- Inventory
- Introduction To Ad-Hoc Commands
Read How Ansible works?.
Complete the Playbooks section of ansible’s documentation: Ansible Playbooks:.
Use this github repository as a reference for some examples and best practices for building Ansible Playbooks.

NOTE: It is better to read the documentation while practicing writing some playbooks.

How is Ansible different than other tools like Chef or Puppet?
What is YAML?
What is when and how do you use it?
How do you extend a conditional over multiple tasks without defining the when conditional multiple times.
How do you use blocks?
How do you include tasks from external files?
What is the diffrence between an include and a import?
How do you pass variables at the command line?
How do you ask for variable prompt?
Why is a bad idea to commit secret data into a git repository?
What are some of the ways to keep secret data out of a repository (Using Ansible)?
What are the advantages and downsides of Ansible Vault?
Where would you save Ansible configurations?
Where is the best place to look for documentation about an Ansible module?
How do you install a yum package using Ansible?
How does Ansible indicate if something changed?
Where are some places variables can be registered?
How are variables referenced?
How do you loop over an list or dictionary in Ansible?
How do you define dependencies between roles?
Why would you use the omit filter?
Why would you use a mandatory variable in Ansible? and how do you define them?
What is the usage of the assert module?
What is a handler?
What are the benefits of a role over a playbook?
Where would use save your variables when you are writing a role?
Why would you create more than one file in the tasks directory when you’re writing a role?