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Explain the difference between Ansible Playbooks, Plays, and Tasks.
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- Playbook: A YAML file containing one or more plays that define automation workflows
- Play: A section within a playbook that maps hosts to tasks and defines how tasks should be executed
- Task: Individual units of work that call Ansible modules to perform specific actions
# Playbook
- name: Web server setup # Play 1
hosts: webservers
tasks:
- name: Install Apache # Task 1
yum:
name: httpd
state: present
- name: Start Apache # Task 2
service:
name: httpd
state: started
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