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LAB02 - Documentation and Finding Information

Task 1

• Print out a list of all ansible modules in your terminal

Note	Don’t be rattled about the massive amount of modules you’ll see in your terminal.

• Print out information about the ansible module file in your terminal

TASK 2

• Find the official online documentation of ansible in your browser

• Visit the module index (e.g. list of all modules) in the online documentation

• Use the search field in the upper left of the webpage and also use the search field in the lower right

TASK 3 (Advanced)

• Find documentation provided by the ansible-doc yum package, but not provided by the command itself

• Find documentation about jinja2 on the controller

Solutions

Solution 1

$ ansible-doc -l
$ ansible-doc file
$ ansible-doc -s file

Solution 2

• visit https://docs.ansible.com/

• visit https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/modules_by_category.html

Solution 3

One way to find a list of provided documentation is to search for files installed with the ansible-doc package:

$ sudo yum install -y yum-utils # (if needed, this package provides the repoquery command)
$ repoquery ansible-doc -l

You can also search for files in /usr/share/doc:

$ ll -R /usr/share/doc/ | grep jinja2