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We’re going to start off by taking a look at configuration management before installing Ansible and writing our first playbook. A playbook is a text file that contains instructions for Ansible to follow to ensure that the machine against which you’ve run Ansible is in the correct state.
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Heap, M. (2016). Getting Started. In: Ansible. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1659-0_1
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