Introduction to Ansible Transcripts
Chapter: Ansible Core Concepts
Lecture: Applying the Ansible Concepts
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We just covered the core concepts for Ansible that we need to know before we can start writing our playbooks and using Ansible
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for configuration management. We took a look at how these concepts relate to each other and how we would take a look at the documentation
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to see which modules are available for the task that we want to perform. We'd right tasks in YAML and we'd group these tasks
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by roles and each of those roles and all the tasks would be put together into a reusable playbook that would use the inventory file
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which is typically named hosts and the inventory file would have corresponding roles. They would group the servers we're going to do work on.
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Now there will be other concepts that we'll introduce along the way. These are the ones that we needed to get started.
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Come back to these videos and use them as a refresher as we're working through our playbooks in the next few chapters.