Summary

This chapter communicated and deployed infrastructure with the remote Linux and Windows hosts by using different Ansible ad-hoc commands and playbooks.

We started with ad-hoc commands to connect with Linux and Windows hosts. We introduced additional variables required to connect to both of them. They were as follows:

Linux

• ansible_user
• ansible_password
• ansible_ssh_common_args
  • Disables host key checking

Windows

• ansible_user
• ansible_password

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