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Modules

If Core Concepts: Modules covered the mental model — check-then-act, FQCNs — this section is the reference: which module to reach for, and the decision trees that make the choice mechanical instead of a guess.

Read in this order

  1. Command vs. Shell vs. Raw vs. Script — the comparison every Ansible engineer needs memorized
  2. Module Decision Trees — copy vs. template, import vs. include, and more, as flowcharts
  3. File, Package, Service, and User Modules
  4. URI and API Automation
  5. Collections Catalog — beyond ansible.builtin: cloud, network, database, and container modules by domain

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