Chapter 6: Deploying Files to Managed Hosts

Deploy, manage and adjust files on hosts managed by Ansible.

What you will learn

• Create, install, edit and remove files on managed hosts, and manage their permissions, ownership and SELinux context.
• Deploy files that are customised for each host by using Jinja2 templates.

Sections

1. Modifying and copying files to hosts
2. Exercise: Modifying and copying files to hosts
3. Deploying custom files with Jinja2 templates
4. Exercise: Deploying custom files with Jinja2 templates
5. Exercise: Deploying files to managed hosts
6. Ansible files and templates quiz
7. Ansible files and templates cheat sheet