Creating Playbooks

Question 1

How does each playbook start?

Answer 1

- name: Name of the Playbook

a descriptive label that helps to understand what the playbook is designed to do

Question 2

How to specify that playbook should be executed on all hosts included in the hosts file?

Answer 2

hosts: ALL

Question 3

How to specify that tasks will be executed on the local machine, not on the remote hosts?

Answer 3

connection: local

common when interacting with network devices using APIs

Question 4

How to specify that the script should not gather any information about the host during the script execution?

Answer 4

gather_facts: False
can speed up playbook execution

Question 5

How to specify the path to the Python interpreter that Ansible should use?

Answer 5

  vars:
    ansible_python_interpreter: /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.11

Question 6

How to specify that paloaltonetworks.panos collections should be used?

Answer 6

  collections:
    - paloaltonetworks.panos

Question 7

What defines actions that will be executed in a playbook? How are the actions executed?

Answer 7

` tasks:`

each task is a step in the playbook, and will be executed in order

Question 8

How to load the variables?

Answer 8

  tasks:
  - name: Load Variable
    include_vars: vars.yml

create it as a task with the include_vars module

Question 9

In order to avoid potential errors, when should be the variables file loaded?

Answer 9

as the first task

Question 10

If collection paloaltonetworks.panos is included in a playbook, how should be the module for security rules defined in tasks, instead of paloaltonetworks.panos.panos_security_rule?

Answer 10

panos_security_rule:

Ansible looks in paloaltonetworks.panos collection for the modules that are referenced in the tasks

Question 11

How to ensure that IP addresses of hosts are used in a playbook from the inventory file?

Answer 11

provider:
  ip_address: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

Question 12

Where can be the provider dictionary used?

Answer 12

either in file with variables or directly in the playbook

Question 13

How do you define the hosts file that includes the IP addresses the playbook connects to?

Answer 13

[ALL]
10.200.1.4

Question 14

How to run an Ansible playbook?

Answer 14

ansible-playbook {playbook}.yml -i {inventory_file}