Ansible Interview Questions
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What are the ansible modules?

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How ansible different from the playbook?

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Suppose you’re using ansible to configure the production environment and your playbook uses an encrypted file. Encrypted files prompt the user to enter passwords. But since ansible is used for automation, can this process be automated?

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What is the difference between a variable name and an environment variable?

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How should one configure a jump host to access servers that I have no direct access to?

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What are ad-hoc commands? Give an example.

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How to keep secret data in a playbook?

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How do I write an ansible handler with multiple tasks?

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What is ansible role and how are they different from the playbook?

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Can you write a simple playbook to install nginx on a host machine?

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How would you access a variable of the first host in a group?

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How does ansible work?

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What features does the ansible tower provide?

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Can you copy files recursively onto a target host? If yes, how?

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Is it unsafe to bulk-set task arguments from a variable?

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Explain a few of the basic terminologies or concepts in ansible.

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How is ansible used in a continuous delivery pipeline? Explain.

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Write an ansible playbook to automate the starting of ec2 instance.

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How to keep secret data in a playbook?

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What are the variables in ansible?

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When should I use {{ }}? Also, how to interpolate variables or dynamic variable names

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What is ansible and what makes it stand out from the rest of the configuration management tools?

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How can one generate encrypted passwords for the user module?

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List some advantages of using ansible.

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What is the way to access shell environment variables in ansible?

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What is the method to check the inventory vars defined for the host?

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How can you speed up management inside in ec2?

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What are the different components of ansible?

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Explain in detail about ad-hoc command?

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Is there a web interface / rest api / etc?

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