From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 3 Managing Systems with Ansible
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Modules related to software management
From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 3 Managing Systems with Ansible
Modules related to software management
- [Instructor] Installing and managing software is one of the main tasks involved in configuring hosts. As such, there are just under 50 different Ansible modules designed to install operating system software packages. There are another 12 modules for installing programming language packages, such as RubyGems and Python dependencies. There are also modules to deal with Windows software packages, as well as modules for installing packages on many types of Unix, such as AIX, HPUX, And Solaris. In addition, there are auxiliary modules for installing Linux software repository files, and for managing keys for verifying package integrity. I can't go over all of these modules in one video, but here's a quick short list of Linux software management modules, including apt for installing Debian packages, dnf for Fedora, yum for older Fedora and enterprise Linux systems, pacman for Arch Linux, slackpkg for Slackware packages, and…
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