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- [Instructor] To read the official Ansible documentation point a web browser to docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest. This has some quickstart guides as well as documentation for modules and ad hoc commands. If you're using Ansible in the command prompt and want quick documentation for command, you can view the man pages. There are man pages for ansible-config, ansible-console, ansible-galaxy, ansible-inventory, ansible-playbook, ansible-pull, ansible-vault and lastly ansible-doc. This last one I want to focus on here. Ansible-doc is good for pulling up documentation on Ansible plugins and modules. To get a listing of all available modules type in ansible-doc -l. There are over 3,300 entries to scroll through. If you want to narrow the list down to just a certain area you can provide the -t option followed by the plugin type. For instance, type ansible-doc -t cache -l for list and hit enter. Possible plugin types are…

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