Ansible Quizz

What is a Module

• Units of work that Ansible ships out to remote machines
• Definition of Hosts where Software will be installed
• List of Servers with updates
• List of Software to be downloaded

How we can run remote shell commands in Ansible ?

• Simply using ssh
• Using raw module
• Connect on remote to the hosts
• Running Python code

What are playbooks

• Playbooks are the list of Softwares to be updated
• Playbooks are the Servers to be updated
• Playbooks are the language by which Ansible orchestrates, configures, administers, or deploys systems
• Playbooks are the language by wich we can communicate with remote servers

How we consider a Play

• A play is simply the list of Modules
• A play is simply the list of Hosts
• A play is a mapping between a set of modules and a list of Softwares to be installed
• A play is a mapping between a set of hosts selected by a host specifier and the tasks which run on those hosts to define the role those systems will perform

In wich format we write PlayBook

• YAML
• XML
• JAVA
• HTML

What is a Task

• Units of work that Ansible ships out to remote machines
• Tasks combine an action with a name and optional some other keywords
• Is a mapping between a set of modules and a list of Softwares to be installed
• Is the language by wich we can communicate with remote servers

How we can run a PlayBook

• ansible-run
• ansible-playbook
• run-playbook
• ansible-play

How we can specify an inventory

• -i hosts
• -m hosts
• -a hosts
• -h hosts

How we can limit execution of a PlayBook for a host

• - only
• - sub
• - target
• - limit

How we can run parallel execution of a PlayBook

• - f
• - p
• - parallel
• - fork