Introduction

Playbooks Overview

• Playbooks are the main construct within Ansible.
• Playbooks have a list of Plays.
• Plays map hosts to tasks. Tasks are basically calls to Ansible modules.
• Playbooks structure looks like:
  • Playbooks contain Plays.
  • Plays contain Tasks
  • Tasks call Modules.

• The most basic formal of a playbook is as follows:

---
- hosts:
  vars:
  remote_user:
  tasks:
  - name:
  - name:
  handlers:

• host defines which hosts/groups this playbooks should be applied to. This is a list so multiple can be entered separated by colons.
• vars
• remote_user defines the users name for accessing the hosts. Remote_user can be used under tasks as well.
• tasks
  • name is the name of the task, could be anything, as long as it is descriptive.
• handlers

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