Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

---
# site.yml : This is a sitewide playbook
- include: www.yml

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ ansible-playbook simple_playbook.yml -i customhosts

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "The resultant variable hash should contain items from defaults plus the overridden values from vars".