Task 1
- Print out a list of all Ansible modules in your terminal.
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 (i.e. list of all modules) in the online documentation.
- Use the search field in the upper left of the web page and also use the search field in the lower right.
Task 3 (Advanced)
- By installing the
ansible-doc
package you get a lot of additional documentation. - Use your package-managers functionality to find out what files are installed with
yum install ansible-doc
. - Now find documentation about jinja2 on the controller.
Task 4 (Captain Future)
- Have a look at the development documentation.
- Search for the release dates of future ansible versions.
Solutions
$ ansible-doc -l
$ ansible-doc file
$ ansible-doc -s file
visit Ansible Docs
One way to find a list of provided documentation:
$ yum install -y yum-utils # (if needed)
$ repoquery ansible-doc -l
You can also search for files in /usr/share/doc
:
$ ls -lahr /usr/share/doc/ | grep jinja2