The ansible documentation is available as an url but don’t rely on it. I passed the exam a couple of weeks ago and the key thing that helped me was adding a function to .bashrc pull examples from ansible-doc into the editor in a flattened format ie: not as yaml. This allowed me to quickly select an example that looked similar to what I needed and yank and paste it where I needed it then customize. With flat functions you don’t need to worry about yaml indentation. I would call the macro as “:r !flat user” for example to pull all examples of user: name=blah uid=whatever etc into my editor.
put this in your .bashrc and source it:
function examples() {
ansible-doc $1 | awk '/'"$1"':/ {p=1} /^$/ {p=0} p'
}
export -f examples
function flat() {
examples $1 | perl -e '
$m = shift @ARGV;
while(<STDIN>) {
chomp;
s/^[\s-]+//;
/$m:/ ? do print "\n - $_" : do { s/:\s+/=/ ; print " $_" }
}
print "\n";
' "$1"
}
export -f flat
That works like a charm.
Another tip: Forget about using "name:" everywhere. Its a total waste of time.
Another tip: Either swtich off the use of colors or make the errors yellow to better read them
Good Luck!
