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Automate Linux File and Directory In 45+ Ansible Examples

Master Ansible programming for efficient Linux system administration tasks with our tutorial. Streamline your IT operations today! Read more.

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Beginner
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5h 45m

Luca Berton is an Ansible Automation Engineer of Red Hat, based in Brno - Czech Republic. With more than 15 years of experience as a System Administrator, he has strong expertise in Infrastructure Hardening and Automation. Enthusiast of the Open Source supports the community by sharing his knowledge in different public access events—geek by nature, Linux by choice, Fedora, of course.

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About This Course

Who this course is for:

  • System Administrator
  • IT Professional
  • Cloud Engineer
  • DevOps

What you’ll learn: 

  • Ansible in real-life use cases
  • Manage files with Ansible in Linux
  • Manage directory with Ansible in Linux
  • Perform modification in files and directories with Ansible in Linux

Requirements: 

  • Ansible basic knowledge

Learn the Ansible automation technology with some real-life examples.

Every successful IT department needs automation nowadays for bare metal servers, virtual machines, cloud, containers, and edge computing. Automate your IT journey with Ansible automation technology.

I’m going to teach you, example by example, how to manage files, and directories, rename, create empty files, and copy between local and remote in Linux, macOS, and Windows operation systems are the most common System Administrator tasks.

Each of the 45+ lessons summarizes a specific scenario about files and directories management: creating an empty file, creating a text file, assigning permission to users and groups, renaming files and directory, removing the files and directory, or copying between local and remote and vice-versa. Another useful administrator tool is to assign permission to files or directories as needed. Included extraction of a compressed zip file or tarball with the most common gzips and bzip2 UNIX formats. Moreover, that is a lesson about file downloading from a URL and verifying the genuinity with the checksum.

You could easily customize the example code with your username and use it in your everyday journey without any additional effort.

There are some Ansible codes usable in all the Linux systems, macOS and Windows, battle-tested in RedHat-like and Debian-like systems.

Are you ready to automate your day with Ansible?

Our Promise to You

By the end of this course, you will have learned different Ansible codes for different scenarios.

10 Day Money Back Guarantee. If you are unsatisfied for any reason, simply contact us and we’ll give you a full refund. No questions asked.

Get started today!

Course Curriculum

Section 1: Introduction
Welcome 00:00:00
Interact To Linux Filesystem With Ansible By Examples 00:00:00
Section 2: Install Ansible
How To Install Ansible In Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In CentOS 8 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In CentOS Stream 8 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Debian 11 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Fedora 35 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Amazon Linux 2 (AWS EC2) 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In CentOS 9 Stream 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Almalinux 8 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 Sp3 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Rocky Linux 9 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Fedora 36 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Almalinux 9 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish 00:00:00
Section 3: Ansible Playbook Code For Linux
Test Host Availability – Ansible Module Ping 00:00:00
Print A Text Or Variable During Execution – Ansible Module Debug 00:00:00
Pause Execution – Ansible Module Pause 00:00:00
Read A File Into A Variable On Host – Ansible Lookup Plugin File 00:00:00
Section 4: Ansible Code To Interact With Linux Filesystem
Create An Empty File – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Create A Text File – Ansible Module Copy 00:00:00
Check If A File Exists – Ansible Module Stat 00:00:00
Create A Directory – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Check If A Directory Exists – Ansible Module Stat 00:00:00
Rename File Or Directory – Ansible Module Copy And File 00:00:00
Change File Permission – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Add Execute Permission 755 Linux File – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Delete File Or Directory – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Create A Symbolic Link (Also Symlink Or Soft Link) In Linux -Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Create A Hard Link In Linux – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Download A File – Ansible Module Get_Url 00:00:00
Copy Files To Remote Hosts – Local To Remote – Ansible Module Copy 00:00:00
Copy Files From Remote Hosts – Remote To Local – Ansible Module Fetch 00:00:00
Extract An Archive – Ansible Module Unarchive 00:00:00
Mount A Windows Share In Linux SMB Or CIFS – Ansible Module Mount 00:00:00
Mount An NFS Share In Linux – Ansible Module Mount 00:00:00
Schedule A Cron Job Task In Linux – Ansible Module Cron 00:00:00
Concatenate Multiple Files In A Specific Order – Ansible Module Template And Yam 00:00:00
Backup With Rsync – Local To Remote – Ansible Module Synchronize 00:00:00
How To Delete Only Files Inside A Directory – Ansible Module Find 00:00:00
Find All Files With Extension — Ansible Module Find 00:00:00
Search For A String In A File -Ansible Module Lineinfile 00:00:00
Create ISO Image From Files And Folders 00:00:00
Section 5: Thank You
Thank You 00:00:00

About This Course

Who this course is for:

  • System Administrator
  • IT Professional
  • Cloud Engineer
  • DevOps

What you’ll learn: 

  • Ansible in real-life use cases
  • Manage files with Ansible in Linux
  • Manage directory with Ansible in Linux
  • Perform modification in files and directories with Ansible in Linux

Requirements: 

  • Ansible basic knowledge

Learn the Ansible automation technology with some real-life examples.

Every successful IT department needs automation nowadays for bare metal servers, virtual machines, cloud, containers, and edge computing. Automate your IT journey with Ansible automation technology.

I’m going to teach you, example by example, how to manage files, and directories, rename, create empty files, and copy between local and remote in Linux, macOS, and Windows operation systems are the most common System Administrator tasks.

Each of the 45+ lessons summarizes a specific scenario about files and directories management: creating an empty file, creating a text file, assigning permission to users and groups, renaming files and directory, removing the files and directory, or copying between local and remote and vice-versa. Another useful administrator tool is to assign permission to files or directories as needed. Included extraction of a compressed zip file or tarball with the most common gzips and bzip2 UNIX formats. Moreover, that is a lesson about file downloading from a URL and verifying the genuinity with the checksum.

You could easily customize the example code with your username and use it in your everyday journey without any additional effort.

There are some Ansible codes usable in all the Linux systems, macOS and Windows, battle-tested in RedHat-like and Debian-like systems.

Are you ready to automate your day with Ansible?

Our Promise to You

By the end of this course, you will have learned different Ansible codes for different scenarios.

10 Day Money Back Guarantee. If you are unsatisfied for any reason, simply contact us and we’ll give you a full refund. No questions asked.

Get started today!

Course Curriculum

Section 1: Introduction
Welcome 00:00:00
Interact To Linux Filesystem With Ansible By Examples 00:00:00
Section 2: Install Ansible
How To Install Ansible In Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In CentOS 8 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In CentOS Stream 8 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Debian 11 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Fedora 35 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Amazon Linux 2 (AWS EC2) 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In CentOS 9 Stream 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Almalinux 8 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 Sp3 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Rocky Linux 9 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Fedora 36 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Almalinux 9 00:00:00
How To Install Ansible In Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish 00:00:00
Section 3: Ansible Playbook Code For Linux
Test Host Availability – Ansible Module Ping 00:00:00
Print A Text Or Variable During Execution – Ansible Module Debug 00:00:00
Pause Execution – Ansible Module Pause 00:00:00
Read A File Into A Variable On Host – Ansible Lookup Plugin File 00:00:00
Section 4: Ansible Code To Interact With Linux Filesystem
Create An Empty File – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Create A Text File – Ansible Module Copy 00:00:00
Check If A File Exists – Ansible Module Stat 00:00:00
Create A Directory – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Check If A Directory Exists – Ansible Module Stat 00:00:00
Rename File Or Directory – Ansible Module Copy And File 00:00:00
Change File Permission – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Add Execute Permission 755 Linux File – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Delete File Or Directory – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Create A Symbolic Link (Also Symlink Or Soft Link) In Linux -Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Create A Hard Link In Linux – Ansible Module File 00:00:00
Download A File – Ansible Module Get_Url 00:00:00
Copy Files To Remote Hosts – Local To Remote – Ansible Module Copy 00:00:00
Copy Files From Remote Hosts – Remote To Local – Ansible Module Fetch 00:00:00
Extract An Archive – Ansible Module Unarchive 00:00:00
Mount A Windows Share In Linux SMB Or CIFS – Ansible Module Mount 00:00:00
Mount An NFS Share In Linux – Ansible Module Mount 00:00:00
Schedule A Cron Job Task In Linux – Ansible Module Cron 00:00:00
Concatenate Multiple Files In A Specific Order – Ansible Module Template And Yam 00:00:00
Backup With Rsync – Local To Remote – Ansible Module Synchronize 00:00:00
How To Delete Only Files Inside A Directory – Ansible Module Find 00:00:00
Find All Files With Extension — Ansible Module Find 00:00:00
Search For A String In A File -Ansible Module Lineinfile 00:00:00
Create ISO Image From Files And Folders 00:00:00
Section 5: Thank You
Thank You 00:00:00

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