Solution: Reading a File with Ansible
Understand how to create and execute an Ansible playbook that reads a file from a remote host using the slurp module, decodes its contents, and displays it for troubleshooting. Explore variable use, task definition, and playbook execution to verify file content retrieval.
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---
- name: Exercise
hosts: all
vars:
myfile: "/proc/cpuinfo"
tasks:
- name: Get the content of the cpuinfo
ansible.builtin.slurp:
src: "{{ myfile }}"
register: file_details
- name: Display cpuinfo
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ file_details.content | b64decode }}"Code to read the cpuinfo file
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