File and directory automation with Ansible in 10 examples

File and directory automation with Ansible in 10 examples

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Learn the Ansible automation technology with some real-life examples.

Every successful IT department needs automation nowadays for bare metal servers, virtual machines, could, containers, and edge computing. Automate your IT journey with Ansible automation technology.

I’m going to teach you example by example how to manage files, directories, rename, create empty files, copy between local and remote in Linux, macOS, and Windows operation systems are the most common System Administrator tasks.

Each of the 30+ lessons summarizes a specific scenario about files and directories management: creating an empty file, creating a text file, assigning the permission to users and groups, renaming files and directory, removing the files and directory, or copy between local and remote and vice-versa. Another useful administrator tool is to assign permission to files or directories as needed. Included extraction of a compressed zip file or tarball with the most common gzips and bzip2 UNIX formats. Moreover, that is a lesson about file download from a URL and verifying the genuinity with the checksum.

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