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

# Task

The `cpuinfo` file displays the processor information on the target system. It is stored under the `/proc/cpuinfo` text file. We want to access the file and display the content on the screen.

# Explanation





In this exercise, write the Ansible playbook to read the content of the text file named `cpuinfo` in the `/proc/` directory using Ansible. To complete the task, you need to perform the following steps:

- In the `read_file.yml` file, write the play named "Exercise".

- Now, add a task named "Get the content of the cpuinfo" and make the necessary changes in the playbook to read the `cpuinfo` file in the `/proc/` directory.

- Save the result of the execution in the `file_details` variable using the `register` statement.

- Then, add a task named “Display cpuinfo” to print on the screen the content of the `cpuinfo` file.

- Add the required additional parameters.

- In `inventory` file, write the statements for the target `localhost`.

After successfully writing the playbook, execute the `read_file.yml` playbook.


If your playbook is executed successfully, you can see the contents of the `cpuinfo` file on the screen by using the command `cat /proc/cpuinfo`.

# Playground

Implement the playbook to read the remote cpuinfo file using Ansible.

Getting Started

Ansible Language

Ansible for Linux

Ansible Troubleshooting

Appendix: Ansible Installation

Conclusion

Exercise: Reading a File with Ansible

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