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Ansible Complex Conditional Usage (Variables, Conditionals, Error Handling)

As with any technology, there's going to be errors or things that don't go exactly as planned. Learning how to handle errors as they happen, and building your playbooks to handle errors in a graceful fashion, is an important skill to have. This lab will help reinforce some of the ways to do this. *This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 0m

Published

Oct 18, 2019

Challenge

Install the linuxacademy_backup_package, Accounting for the Repository or Package Not Being Available
The task should look similar to the following:
```
   - name: Install backup package
     yum:
      name: linuxacademy_backup_package
      state: present
     ignore_errors: true
```

Challenge

Check for the Existence of /root/archive.tar and Create It If It Doesn't

This part of the playbook should look something like this:

  - name: Check for archive file
    command: ls /root/archive.tar
    register: check_result
    ignore_errors: true
  - name: Touch archive file
    file:
     path: /root/archive.tar
     state: touch
    when: check_result is failed

Author

A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

What's a lab?

Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.