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Lesson 6 lab: Making playbooks flexible with variables

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Lesson 6 lab: Making playbooks flexible with variables

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All right. We are now at the end of this lesson. Let's do a lab. So in this lab, you use host variables to define a variable web package and a variable web service, which is set to the appropriate packages for Ubuntu and Red Hat, where Ubuntu is using Apache2, and Red Hat is using httpd. Next, you write a playbook that installs the packages on each distribution based on these variables. As we have not yet talked about conditionals, I advise you not to use conditionals, but write one play for the Red Hat family hosts and another play for the Ubuntu hosts. Good luck.

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