Most modern applications use JSON and YAML for communication and configuration. However, there are many applications still using XML. If for some reason, you have to work with an XML file over bash, this post will cover many examples to extract the values from an XML file. Note that there are other alternatives to xmllint […]
In most cases, ansible inbuilt modules are enough to do the job. However, in some cases, it’s either highly complex or impossible to achieve the goal using ansible inbuilt modules. In such cases, many users write their scripts(Eg: bash or python,Etc.), which is fine for most cases. However, there are some downsides to using scripts.
For writing a custom module, we can use any language of our choice as long as it can return a JSON object. This post will write a simple custom module using a bash script. Typically the choice of language for writing a custom module is python; however, if, due to some reasons, you prefer to
