In this chapter, we have tried to show you as many useful modules as possible, with examples of daily activities that can be carried out and personal comments based on our experience of using them. Further modules and more advanced features can be found in the official Ansible documentation. Here, we have only discussed modules that are officially supported and maintained; it would be impossible to cover all of the modules that are available in the community, on the Ansible Galaxy platform, or in the entire range of GitHub projects. If you can think of a task that I have not discussed in this chapter, rest assured that somebody out there will have a bug or a fix to make it happen. Ansible has one of the biggest communities in the open source world; feel free to use it.

In the next chapter, we are going to use some of these tools to carry out some real automation. We will be mixing and matching various modules in playbooks to perform a complex playbook for the usual daily tasks.