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Ansible InventoryRH254

Using Ansible Inventory Files

Building Ansible Inventory As we have already briefly seen, the hosts that want to manage are configured within the inventory file that we either configure in the ansible.cfg or specify with the option -i* There…
The Urban Penguin
September 2, 2019
Managing Users in AnsibleRH294

Managing Users in Ansible

The user module in Ansible is the topic of this blog where we dive into managing Users in Ansible 2.8 running on our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 controller node. Rather than just running through…
The Urban Penguin
August 31, 2019
FileSystems

POSIX ACLs in Linux

As a system administrator in Linux, it will not take you long to realize that permissions managed only using the file mode become very limiting. The mode of a file allows for a single user,…
The Urban Penguin
May 27, 2019