DevOps Classroomnotes 11/Jan/2023

Ansible lookups

• Refer Here for official lookup docs.
• Lookups work with the help of lookup plugins Refer Here
• To understand lookups better, lets install the Ansible traditional way and look into ansible configuration files
• execute ansible –version
  
• The hosts file in /etc/ansible acts as default inventory
• Ansible.cfg in /etc/ansible is the configuration file of ansible where settings of ansible are defined.

Ansible Configuration file

• Refer Here for the official docs.
• Refer Here for the generated ansible.cfg using ansible-config command
• Ansible also has inventory plugins. Refer Here
• Configuring community modules into ansible
• Ansible two ways of working
  • From infra provisioning:
    • one node at a time
    • playbooks and roles/collections
  • Directly as Configuration Management
    • multi node
    • Configure lookups, plugins etc
    • playbooks and roles/collections, lookups, inventories etc.