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                                            Jeff Geerling

chapter 9 ELK stack fails when using recommended 4.1.1 version of geerlingguy.elasticsearch role

Thanks, looks like I'll need to bump the versions in the book example!

Page 35 - Ansible -m package can't tell which package manager to use

Ansible 2.6 is far out of support, and I think most of the examples in the book would be broken under that version. Please install at least Ansible 2.9 (the...

"cd awx/installer"

@nbhanji - Yeah; it seems that as of AWX 18.0 and later, the only supported way to install it is via the AWX Operator; see the updated install guide: https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/INSTALL.md...

Ch4 nodejs Fixes - remove remi repo config

Honestly I don't remember why I had the remi tasks in there...

DigitalOcean dynamic inventory provision playbook uses invalid droplet size

Thanks for filing this issue; I'll get it tested and updated soon!

Minor inconsistency with arguments to free(1) in Chapters 1 and 3

@pt307 - Oops, thanks for catching that! I'll have to fix this up for the next version of the book.

p.37 permissions for directory

Ah yes... not sure why I'd set 644 for a dir!

Remove duplicate mysql_user tasks once Ansible 2.10 is stable

Heh, true.

Use inventory plugin instead of script for Python dynamic inventory example

And a few more examples I found today from AnsibleFest 2019: - https://github.com/willtome/managing-meaningful-inventories - https://www.ansible.com/hubfs//AnsibleFest%20ATL%20Slide%20Decks/AnsibleFest%202019%20-%20Managing%20Meaningful%20Inventories.pdf

Use inventory plugin instead of script for Python dynamic inventory example

Also some helpful inventory debugging commands, like: ansible-inventory -i [inventory] --list