Technical requirements

This chapter assumes that you have successfully installed the latest version of Ansible (2.9, at the time of writing) onto a Linux node, as discussed in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Ansible. It also assumes that you have at least one other Linux host to test automation code on; the more hosts you have available, the more you will be able to develop the examples in this chapter and learn about Ansible. SSH communication between the Linux hosts is assumed, as is a working knowledge of them.

The code bundle for this chapter is available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Ansible-2-Cookbook/tree/master/Chapter%202.