Gain insights into installing and using Ansible, delve into playbooks and inventory management, and learn about troubleshooting to efficiently automate IT tasks and enhance your IT career.

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In an era of IT environments, automation is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity. Ansible, an open-source IT automation tool, has become a go-to solution for streamlining IT tasks. This comprehensive course aims to equip you with both fundamental and advanced Ansible knowledge.

You'll start by installing Ansible, understanding its architecture, and diving into inventory management and playbook creation. Next, you'll explore variables, conditional statements, loops, handlers, roles, and collections. After that, the course dives into Ansible for Linux-specific tasks and troubleshooting techniques to resolve common problems like connection failures, missing parameters, and syntax errors. 

After completing this course, you'll have gained a robust understanding of Ansible, with the ability to create efficient playbooks, manage inventory, troubleshoot common problems, and automate a wide range of IT tasks. These skills will provide a strong foundation for a thriving career in IT infrastructure management.

Automating IT Infrastructure with Ansible


Editing configuration files is a day-to-day task for every system administrator.
It can be a service configuration file, enabling options, or Unix parameters. All of these use cases require editing a text file.

# Ansible `lineinfile` module




The `ansible.builtin.lineinfile` module in Ansible serves the purpose of editing text files, enabling users to insert, update, or remove a single line of text within the file. Being included in the collection of `builtin` modules, it comes shipped with every Ansible installation. This is designed to support a wide range of operating systems.


# Parameters

There are many parameters for the `lineinfile` Ansible module, but `path` is the only mandatory parameter.
The parameter specifies the filesystem path of the file we want to edit.

The following are some optional parameters that can prove to be quite useful:



Learn how to edit a configuration file in Ansible using the lineinfile command.

Getting Started

Ansible Language

Ansible for Linux

Ansible Troubleshooting

Appendix: Ansible Installation

Conclusion

Editing a Text File

Ansible `lineinfile` module

Parameters

Editing a Text File

Ansible lineinfile module

Parameters

Ansible `lineinfile` module