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Chapter 3: ansible-galaxy collections

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pananix commented

Jeff,
Found that the 3 server instance in Chapter 3 required installation of 2 ansible galaxy collections:
ansible-galaxy collections install ansible.posix
ansible-galaxy collections install community.mysql
These are necessary to run the commands for firewalld (ansible.posix), and mysql_user (community.mysql)
I ran a clean ansible install and these did not come in as part and parcel of ansible 2.14.18.
I suggest a footnote --

pananix commented

Note needed on pg 31.

geerlingguy commented

@pananix - Note that I usually recommend people do pip install ansible, which installs the Ansible Community package with all the standard modules/collections included—that way you don't need to pick and choose the various collections you'll need in 99% of the cases.

But I may revisit that decision a bit in time as I migrate all the examples to FQCNs.