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Hello all, I have recently read through the Startup Playbook and will give a quick take on it based on my experience. I would say reading The Startup Playbook by Sam Altman became this new look into the world of startups. Being a Middle Eastern chemical engineering student in Arizona, I found insight and connected things relevant to me in particular. Although my field is technical, the insights on how to actually build something users really love caught my full attention. Similar to engineering, entrepreneurship can be very complicated, and one could think that sometimes big is always better. Still, Altman insists on the power of starting small: focus on something a few people love, not something lots of people like. There's almost something universal about this advice, possibly beyond startups themselves. What did lead was how he spoke to the notion of risk: growing up in a culture that sometimes puts such high value on stability, the notion of taking risks felt a little paradigm-shifting. Conclusion: This playbook makes it plain and simple that, yes, starting a venture is hard, but playing it safe rather than passionate might be the riskier play over the long term. This really made me reflect on the opportunities available to me after graduation, whether through traditional chemical engineering paths or, I don't know, maybe something a little more entrepreneurial-perhaps even in sustainability or energy. Altman's point about clarity of thought and clarity of communication also parallels to my engineering education. While we are taught to solve the most complicated problems, solution communication is equally important. Whether it is to sell an idea, design a product, or to solve a chemical process problem, clarity makes the difference. Here is the reference: https://playbook.samaltman.com/ Hello all, I have recently read through the Startup Playbook and will give a quick take on it based on my experience. I would say reading The Startup Playbook by Sam Altman became this new look into the world of startups. Being a Middle Eastern chemical engineering student in Arizona, I found insight and connected things relevant to me in particular. Although my field is technical, the insights on how to actually build something users really love caught my full attention. Similar to engineering, entrepreneurship can be very complicated, and one could think that sometimes big is always better. Still, Altman insists on the power of starting small: focus on something a few people love, not something lots of people like. There's almost something universal about this advice, possibly beyond startups themselves. What did lead was how he spoke to the notion of risk: growing up in a culture that sometimes puts such high value on stability, the notion of taking risks felt a little paradigm-shifting. Conclusion: This playbook makes it plain and simple that, yes, starting a venture is hard, but playing it safe rather than passionate might be the riskier play over the long term. This really made me reflect on the opportunities available to me after graduation, whether through traditional chemical engineering paths or, I don't know, maybe something a little more entrepreneurial-perhaps even in sustainability or energy. Altman's point about clarity of thought and clarity of communication also parallels to my engineering education. While we are taught to solve the most complicated problems, solution communication is equally important. Whether it is to sell an idea, design a product, or to solve a chemical process problem, clarity makes the difference. Here is the reference: https://playbook.samaltman.com/ https://playbook.samaltman.com/

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Keywords: Airdrop, Integration strategies, Point program trends, User loyalty Tl,dr: Points programs unify DeFi integration across various dApps, enhancing asset utilization and effectively driving protocol growth while tackling the cold-start problem.


Pendle, Curve, and Morpho emerge as the go-to platforms for initial liquidity scaling


As the institutional DeFi and Trafi/RWA matures, permissionless risk manager curated vault is the future The rise of Eigenlayer, the pioneer of restaking infrastructure, has amassed a peak TVL of $20 billion as a top3 protocol by size, representing a large portion of all staked ETH, with Symbiotic and Karak following suit; the assets built top on it like Etherfi, Renzo and Puffer also experienced exponentially growth in 2024. As blockchains continue to grow and become more scalable, on-chain consumer apps and the wide range of possibilities they entail are now poised to have a greater influence on the broader crypto experience than ever before. In this dynamic environment, DeFi integrations have become a critical solution for bootstrapping liquidity and addressing the cold-start problem. Airdrops and points programs, which have become standard in crypto in 2024, have played a pivotal role in this process. The industry's relentless pursuit of user liquidity and attention through innovation and token incentives has created a highly competitive landscape. Points, which are not a new form of user loyalty, have conquered DeFi in 2024 by introducing an element of unpredictability and excitement to asset restaking. Unlike fixed liquidity mining, points introduce variability in rewards, which keeps users engaged and motivated. According to the Hook Model, proposed by Nir Eyal, the variability of the reward is crucial to the hook model. Novelty activates the dopamine system, which causes us to feel pleasure when we experience something new. The unpredictability of rewards keeps users engaged, similar to how a slot machine operates. kinda assemble the craze of airdrop in DeFi. Players feel extremely motivated to participate since rewards are unpredictable and random. Integration Stack
We explore the ways in which decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols began to tokenize ever-more complex forms of value in a composable manner, enabling an entire sector of decentralized financial services on chain, including lending, borrowing, trading, yield generation, and more. In many respects, DeFi protocols represent some of the first on-chain consumer apps to achieve product-market fit, fundamentally altering the way users interact with blockchains and continuing to serve as a driving force for on-chain activity today. The combination of speculation and utility can be quite powerful. Speculation can serve as an effective tool for early user acquisition. The internet itself thrives on attention, and in a world where competition for attention is growing exponentially, every dApp needs a certain level of attention to remain relevant. These DeFi integration enables the asset’s use cases and facilitate its netflows growth in various sectors. One of the most significant trends in DeFi integration is the rise of Proof of Stake + Restaking. This concept has changed the landscape for on-chain dapps, particularly for lending protocols, which occupy a significant portion of DeFi usage seen above. When creating a lending pair where users could borrow ETH using an LRT/ a LRT DEX LP token as collateral or enabling them farm the points/yields with leverage (and multiplying LRT liquidity). The most important thing for the collateral assets is that users are willing to pay relatively high interest rates to borrow LRT against them, since this will increase lending rates for LRT and grow demand then drive TVL. Source: https://dune.com/Henrystats/lrt-utilization-specific Current Trends in DeFi Integration From Uniswap to Curve
During the recent restaking war, Curve has emerged as a leading platform for DEX liquidity, surpassing Uniswap. Curve's advanced trading mechanics and ecosystem support, including CRV bribes, access to DeFi power users, and co-mkt, have made it a preferred choice for projects seeking liquidity. Unlike Uniswap, Curve's ecosystem offers comprehensive support for early-stage projects, driving its dominance in this niche.


Pendle's Dominance in Yield Trading
Pendle has established itself as a go-to platform for yield trading and a key component of on-chain liquidity. By aligning with the crypto Twitter narrative around liquid staking tokens (LSTs), Bitcoin staking, and real-world assets (RWAs), Pendle has positioned itself at the forefront of yield provision. Its ability to cater to emerging trends has solidified its role in the DeFi landscape, achieving a peak TVL $6.7Billion during the point season.



Risk’s First Vault Popularity
As restaking gains momentum, projects are integrating with additional infrastructures like Karak and Etherfi to enhance yield and user retention. Etherfi’s liquid vaults simplify staking and have attracted significant liquidity, leveraging the expertise of risk management firms like Gauntlet and Chaos Labs to optimize financial strategies. The liquid vaults on etherfi, including Usual’s USDe and Elixir’s deUSD, not only enhance yield across various protocols but also simplify the staking process. By reducing manual effort and lowering entry barriers, these vaults have attracted significant liquidity, with Etherfi leading the charge due to its first-mover advantage, no.1 TVL in restaking sector and efforts on security. There has been increasing popularity to launch a vault managed by risk managers, like Gauntlet, Chaos Labs and MEV capital. For context, risk management companies are economic security institutions, they provide professional cryptoeconomic security service including but not least risk parameter optimization, financial risk monitoring system, token incentive design, and treasury management, etc. for crypto native projects. Because of their proficiency in financial engineering and risk-sensitive approach, they had some success on gaining trust and liquidity when operating a liquid yield strategy, best exampled by Morpho V2 launch and their LRT onboarding strategy. I personally fully recognize their role as risk manager in DeFi and bullish on the strong potential with growing institutional adoption and RWA. Looking Ahead While some may argue that DeFi integrations with points systems are not innovative, their combination has brought more attention, traffic, and TVL to newer assets on-chain. These have become an indispensable part of the new assets on-chain scaling solution. As the industry continues to evolve, we expect to see even more innovative solutions emerging to meet the growing demands of on-chain consumers. The future of DeFi is bright, and with the integration stack, we are poised to witness even greater advancements in decentralized financial services. Keywords: Airdrop, Integration strategies, Point program trends, User loyalty Tl,dr: Tl,dr: Points programs unify DeFi integration across various dApps, enhancing asset utilization and effectively driving protocol growth while tackling the cold-start problem. Pendle, Curve, and Morpho emerge as the go-to platforms for initial liquidity scaling As the institutional DeFi and Trafi/RWA matures, permissionless risk manager curated vault is the future Points programs unify DeFi integration across various dApps, enhancing asset utilization and effectively driving protocol growth while tackling the cold-start problem. Points programs unify DeFi integration across various dApps, enhancing asset utilization and effectively driving protocol growth while tackling the cold-start problem. Pendle, Curve, and Morpho emerge as the go-to platforms for initial liquidity scaling Pendle, Curve, and Morpho emerge as the go-to platforms for initial liquidity scaling As the institutional DeFi and Trafi/RWA matures, permissionless risk manager curated vault is the future As the institutional DeFi and Trafi/RWA matures, permissionless risk manager curated vault is the future The rise of Eigenlayer, the pioneer of restaking infrastructure, has amassed a peak TVL of $20 billion as a top3 protocol by size, representing a large portion of all staked ETH, with Symbiotic and Karak following suit; the assets built top on it like Etherfi, Renzo and Puffer also experienced exponentially growth in 2024. As blockchains continue to grow and become more scalable, on-chain consumer apps and the wide range of possibilities they entail are now poised to have a greater influence on the broader crypto experience than ever before. In this dynamic environment, DeFi integrations have become a critical solution for bootstrapping liquidity and addressing the cold-start problem. Airdrops and points programs, which have become standard in crypto in 2024, have played a pivotal role in this process. The industry's relentless pursuit of user liquidity and attention through innovation and token incentives has created a highly competitive landscape. Points, which are not a new form of user loyalty, have conquered DeFi in 2024 by introducing an element of unpredictability and excitement to asset restaking. Unlike fixed liquidity mining, points introduce variability in rewards, which keeps users engaged and motivated. According to the Hook Model, proposed by Nir Eyal, the variability of the reward is crucial to the hook model. Novelty activates the dopamine system, which causes us to feel pleasure when we experience something new. The unpredictability of rewards keeps users engaged, similar to how a slot machine operates. kinda assemble the craze of airdrop in DeFi. Players feel extremely motivated to participate since rewards are unpredictable and random. Integration Stack We explore the ways in which decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols began to tokenize ever-more complex forms of value in a composable manner, enabling an entire sector of decentralized financial services on chain, including lending, borrowing, trading, yield generation, and more. In many respects, DeFi protocols represent some of the first on-chain consumer apps to achieve product-market fit, fundamentally altering the way users interact with blockchains and continuing to serve as a driving force for on-chain activity today. Integration Stack The combination of speculation and utility can be quite powerful. Speculation can serve as an effective tool for early user acquisition. The internet itself thrives on attention, and in a world where competition for attention is growing exponentially, every dApp needs a certain level of attention to remain relevant. These DeFi integration enables the asset’s use cases and facilitate its netflows growth in various sectors. One of the most significant trends in DeFi integration is the rise of Proof of Stake + Restaking. This concept has changed the landscape for on-chain dapps, particularly for lending protocols, which occupy a significant portion of DeFi usage seen above. When creating a lending pair where users could borrow ETH using an LRT/ a LRT DEX LP token as collateral or enabling them farm the points/yields with leverage (and multiplying LRT liquidity). The most important thing for the collateral assets is that users are willing to pay relatively high interest rates to borrow LRT against them, since this will increase lending rates for LRT and grow demand then drive TVL. Source: https://dune.com/Henrystats/lrt-utilization-specific Source: https://dune.com/Henrystats/lrt-utilization-specific Current Trends in DeFi Integration Current Trends in DeFi Integration From Uniswap to Curve
During the recent restaking war, Curve has emerged as a leading platform for DEX liquidity, surpassing Uniswap. Curve's advanced trading mechanics and ecosystem support, including CRV bribes, access to DeFi power users, and co-mkt, have made it a preferred choice for projects seeking liquidity. Unlike Uniswap, Curve's ecosystem offers comprehensive support for early-stage projects, driving its dominance in this niche. Pendle's Dominance in Yield Trading
Pendle has established itself as a go-to platform for yield trading and a key component of on-chain liquidity. By aligning with the crypto Twitter narrative around liquid staking tokens (LSTs), Bitcoin staking, and real-world assets (RWAs), Pendle has positioned itself at the forefront of yield provision. Its ability to cater to emerging trends has solidified its role in the DeFi landscape, achieving a peak TVL $6.7Billion during the point season. Risk’s First Vault Popularity
As restaking gains momentum, projects are integrating with additional infrastructures like Karak and Etherfi to enhance yield and user retention. Etherfi’s liquid vaults simplify staking and have attracted significant liquidity, leveraging the expertise of risk management firms like Gauntlet and Chaos Labs to optimize financial strategies. From Uniswap to Curve During the recent restaking war, Curve has emerged as a leading platform for DEX liquidity, surpassing Uniswap. Curve's advanced trading mechanics and ecosystem support, including CRV bribes, access to DeFi power users, and co-mkt, have made it a preferred choice for projects seeking liquidity. Unlike Uniswap, Curve's ecosystem offers comprehensive support for early-stage projects, driving its dominance in this niche. From Uniswap to Curve During the recent restaking war, Curve has emerged as a leading platform for DEX liquidity, surpassing Uniswap. Curve's advanced trading mechanics and ecosystem support, including CRV bribes, access to DeFi power users, and co-mkt, have made it a preferred choice for projects seeking liquidity. Unlike Uniswap, Curve's ecosystem offers comprehensive support for early-stage projects, driving its dominance in this niche. Pendle's Dominance in Yield Trading Pendle has established itself as a go-to platform for yield trading and a key component of on-chain liquidity. By aligning with the crypto Twitter narrative around liquid staking tokens (LSTs), Bitcoin staking, and real-world assets (RWAs), Pendle has positioned itself at the forefront of yield provision. Its ability to cater to emerging trends has solidified its role in the DeFi landscape, achieving a peak TVL $6.7Billion during the point season. Pendle's Dominance in Yield Trading Pendle has established itself as a go-to platform for yield trading and a key component of on-chain liquidity. By aligning with the crypto Twitter narrative around liquid staking tokens (LSTs), Bitcoin staking, and real-world assets (RWAs), Pendle has positioned itself at the forefront of yield provision. Its ability to cater to emerging trends has solidified its role in the DeFi landscape, achieving a peak TVL $6.7Billion during the point season. Risk’s First Vault Popularity As restaking gains momentum, projects are integrating with additional infrastructures like Karak and Etherfi to enhance yield and user retention. Etherfi’s liquid vaults simplify staking and have attracted significant liquidity, leveraging the expertise of risk management firms like Gauntlet and Chaos Labs to optimize financial strategies. Risk’s First Vault Popularity As restaking gains momentum, projects are integrating with additional infrastructures like Karak and Etherfi to enhance yield and user retention. Etherfi’s liquid vaults simplify staking and have attracted significant liquidity, leveraging the expertise of risk management firms like Gauntlet and Chaos Labs to optimize financial strategies. The liquid vaults on etherfi, including Usual’s USDe and Elixir’s deUSD, not only enhance yield across various protocols but also simplify the staking process. By reducing manual effort and lowering entry barriers, these vaults have attracted significant liquidity, with Etherfi leading the charge due to its first-mover advantage, no.1 TVL in restaking sector and efforts on security. There has been increasing popularity to launch a vault managed by risk managers, like Gauntlet, Chaos Labs and MEV capital. For context, risk management companies are economic security institutions, they provide professional cryptoeconomic security service including but not least risk parameter optimization, financial risk monitoring system, token incentive design, and treasury management, etc. for crypto native projects. Because of their proficiency in financial engineering and risk-sensitive approach, they had some success on gaining trust and liquidity when operating a liquid yield strategy, best exampled by Morpho V2 launch and their LRT onboarding strategy. I personally fully recognize their role as risk manager in DeFi and bullish on the strong potential with growing institutional adoption and RWA. Looking Ahead Looking Ahead While some may argue that DeFi integrations with points systems are not innovative, their combination has brought more attention, traffic, and TVL to newer assets on-chain. These have become an indispensable part of the new assets on-chain scaling solution. As the industry continues to evolve, we expect to see even more innovative solutions emerging to meet the growing demands of on-chain consumers. The future of DeFi is bright, and with the integration stack, we are poised to witness even greater advancements in decentralized financial services.

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United States v. Apple INC Court Filing, retrieved on March 21, 2024 is part of . You can jump to any part in this filing . This part is 11 of 25. HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here B. Apple has every incentive to use its monopoly playbook in the future 136. Apple’s conduct does not just impact the past and present but poses significant risk to the development of new innovations. Apple may use its smartphone monopoly playbook to acquire or maintain power over next-frontier devices and technologies. As Apple grows its dominance, Apple may continue delaying or stifling the innovations of cross-platform companies, in order to lock users into Apple devices. 137. Apple has countless products and services—AirPods, iPads, Music, Apple TV, photos, maps, iTunes, CarPlay, AirDrop, Apple Card, and Cash. These provide future avenues for Apple to engage in anticompetitive conduct and the ability to circumvent remedies. Appropriate forward-looking remedies are necessary to ensure that Apple cannot use these products and services to further entrench its monopoly power. 138. Apple’s conduct extends beyond just monopoly profits and even affects the flow of speech. For example, Apple is rapidly expanding its role as a TV and movie producer and has exercised that role to control content. 139. Apple has also attempted to use its monopoly to collect user data and stifle innovation in the automotive industry by, among other things, impeding the development of digital key technologies by requiring them to be offered in Apple’s proprietary wallet product and creating new single points of power over emerging uses of the iPhone. These acts further reinforce Apple’s power in the iPhone by locking in Apple’s services and excluding other alternative technologies that have the potential to disintermediate Apple’s iPhone. 140. Finally, Apple’s monopolization of smartphone markets gives it tremendous power over the lives of millions of Americans. Today, Apple uses that power to undermine rival smartphones, suppress innovative technologies, and stymie consumer choice. Tomorrow, Apple may use its power to force its own users (and their data) to become its next profitable product. Continue Reading . Here About HackerNoon Legal PDF Series: We bring you the most important technical and insightful public domain court case filings. This court case retrieved on March 21, 2024, from is part of the public domain. The court-created documents are works of the federal government, and under copyright law, are automatically placed in the public domain and may be shared without legal restriction. justice.gov

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United States v. Apple INC Court Filing, retrieved on March 21, 2024 is part of . You can jump to any part in this filing . This part is 4 of 25. HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here A. Apple launched the iPod, iTunes, and the iTunes Store against the backdrop of United States v. Microsoft 26. When Apple began developing mobile consumer devices, it did so against the backdrop of United States v. Microsoft, which created new opportunities for innovation in areas that would become critical to the success of Apple’s consumer devices and the company itself. For example, the iPod did not achieve widespread adoption until Apple developed a cross platform version of the iPod and iTunes for Microsoft’s Windows operating system, at the time the dominant operating system for personal computers. In the absence of the consent decree in United States v. Microsoft, it would have been more difficult for Apple to achieve this success and ultimately launch the iPhone. 27. On May 18, 1998, the Justice Department and the attorneys general of 19 states and the District of Columbia filed United States v. Microsoft, an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft alleging that the company had violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by monopolizing the market for Intel-compatible personal computer operating systems. At trial, the government successfully established that Microsoft took steps to undermine the competitive threats posed by “middleware,” such as web browsers like Netscape, after recognizing that if users could use middleware to access a variety of content and services via remote servers, over the internet, they might be less reliant on Windows. 28. Microsoft also took steps to undermine cross-platform technologies like QuickTime, a software architecture developed by Apple to play multimedia content (e.g., music and videos) on Apple’s Mac computers and Microsoft’s Windows PCs. In particular, Apple’s then-Senior Vice President of Software Engineering testified that Microsoft “[wrote] steps into its operating system to ensure that a QuickTime file will not operate reliably on Windows,” “trick[ed] the user into believing that QuickTime technology is part of the problem actually caused by the Windows operating system,” and “introduced greater technical incompatibilities between QuickTime and Microsoft products.” 29. In April 2000, the trial court ultimately found that Microsoft’s conduct violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act. An appeals court upheld the district court’s findings of liability regarding middleware. 30. In January 2001, Apple introduced iTunes, software built on Apple’s QuickTime architecture, and advertised it as “Jukebox Software” for organizing and listening to music. The initial version of iTunes was only compatible with Apple’s Mac computers. 31. Later that same year, Apple debuted the iPod, a portable digital audio player that worked alongside iTunes to “let[] you put your entire music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go.” Like iTunes, the initial iPod was only compatible with Mac computers. 32. On November 1, 2002, the trial court accepted a proposed consent decree in . Among other things, the consent decree prohibited Microsoft from retaliating against companies for developing or distributing products such as browsers and media players. The consent decree also required Microsoft to make various APIs available to third-party developers, including Apple. United States v. Microsoft 33. Following that consent decree in October 2003, Apple launched a cross-platform version of iTunes that was compatible with the Windows operating system. As a result, a much larger group of users could finally use the iPod and iTunes, including the iTunes Store. The iTunes Store allowed users to buy and download music and play it on their iTunes computer application or on the iPod. Apple benefited substantially from this new customer base. In the first two years after launching the iPod, Apple sold a few hundred thousand devices. The year after launching a Windows-compatible version of iTunes and gaining access to millions more customers, Apple sold millions of devices. Apple went on to sell hundreds of millions of iPod devices over the next two decades. Moreover, iTunes became the market leader in online music services. At an event in 2007, Apple’s then-CEO said of the iPod, “it didn’t just change the way we all listened to music, it changed the entire music industry.” At the same event, he announced that the company would change its name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in light of its shifting focus to consumer electronics rather than computers. 34. The ubiquity of iPod and iTunes on Windows, in part because of a successful antitrust enforcement action against Microsoft, contributed to the development and success of Apple’s next flagship product—the iPhone. But after launching the iPhone, Apple began stifling the development of cross-platform technologies on the iPhone, just as Microsoft tried to stifle cross-platform technologies on Windows. 35. In January 2007, Apple debuted the first-generation iPhone, describing the device as “an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator,” and touting the fact that users could “sync[] content from a user’s iTunes library on their PC or Mac.” Apple marketed the iPhone as a smartphone that was easy to use. Reflecting on the company’s learning from the iPod, Apple’s then-CEO announced, “iTunes is going to sync all your media to your iPhone—but also a ton of data. Contacts, calendars, photos, notes, bookmarks, email accounts.” 36. The original iPhone cost approximately $299—approximately $450 in 2024 dollars adjusted for inflation—with a two-year contract with a phone carrier. 37. At launch, nearly all native apps for the iPhone were created by Apple. There were only about a dozen apps overall, including Calendar, Camera, Clock, Contacts, iPod, Messages, Notes, Phone, Photos, Safari, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Weather. 38. Within a year of launching the iPhone, Apple invited third-party developers to create native apps for the iPhone. Apple released its first software development kit—essentially the digital tools for building native apps on Apple’s operating system (iOS)—to encourage and enable third-party developers to create native apps for the iPhone. Apple also offered developers ways to earn money by selling apps and later in-app purchases and subscriptions. By 2009, Apple was running marketing campaigns highlighting the value that third-party apps provide to iPhone users with the trademarked slogan: “There’s an app for that.” 39. Apple’s decision to invite third-party participation on its iPhone platform benefited Apple, too. The proliferation of third-party apps generated billions of dollars in profits for Apple and an iPhone user base of more than 250 million devices in the United States. Apple’s market shares—over 70 percent of the performance smartphone market and over 65 percent of the broader smartphone market—likely understate its monopoly power today. 40. While Apple profits from third-party developers that increase the iPhone’s value to users, Apple executives understand that third-party products and services can, in their own words, be “fundamentally disruptive” to its smartphone monopoly, decreasing users’ dependence on Apple and the iPhone and increasing competitive pressure on Apple. 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allow you to declare tasks to be performed on remote hosts. Ansible playbooks Overview of Playbook Structure: specifies a group of tasks to be executed on a set of hosts. Play: an action to be performed on the host. Task: a piece of code for a specific task. Module: What are Task Control & Handler? These are methods of controlling how and when your automation scripts are executed. Task control lets you specify conditions for running tasks while handlers are a form of tasks that you trigger only when changes need to be applied. Task Control Overview Task control in Ansible allows you to state the conditions under which your scripts should run. This can be implemented using conditionals such as: When This conditional allows you to execute a task only if it evaluates to true. Ansible Facts are variables containing information like network interfaces, operating system, IP addresses, and more, which are gathered from host machines and can be used in conditionals. ansible_facts Task Handlers Overview Handlers are tasks set to run only when certain changes occur, such as when a service's configuration file is updated by another task. Notify The directive in a task triggers a handler if the task results in any changes to the host. notify Listen The directive allows multiple tasks to notify the same handler even if they use different names. listen notify Practice Exercises We'll start with two pre-configured inventory files. contains two hosts while contains one host. Inventory-webserver1.yaml inventory-webserver2.yaml Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/perplexedyawdie/ansible-learn.git 2. Change the directory to playbooks-task-control-handlers cd ansible-learn/playbooks-task-control-handlers Spin up the environment using docker-compose docker compose up -d --build 4. SSH into the Ansible server ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost=yes root@localhost -p 2200
# password: test123 Working with Playbooks Create playbook file cd ansible_learn

touch install_nginx.yaml

nano install_nginx.yaml Add the following config to install nginx # ansible_learn/install_nginx.yaml
# setting the state param to "present" will ensure that it is installed

- name: Install NGINX Web Server
  hosts: webserver1
  tasks:
    - name: Install NGINX
      ansible.builtin.apt:
        name: nginx
        state: present Run the linter ansible-lint install_nginx.yaml Execute the playbook on inventory-webserver1.yaml ansible-playbook --key-file /root/.ssh/id_rsa_ansible -u root -i inventory-webserver1.yaml install_nginx.yaml Confirm installation on server1 & server2 then check if it's installed on server3 ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_ansible root@server1 nginx -V
ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_ansible root@server2 nginx -V


ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_ansible root@server3 nginx -V Task Controls & Handlers We want to create a playbook that installs Apache on servers that do not have a specific file (e.g., ), and then use a handler to restart Apache if it is newly installed or updated. /var/www/html/index.nginx-debian.html Create & open the file install_nginx.yaml touch conditional_install_apache.yaml

nano conditional_install_apache.yaml Add a condition to install Apache if doesn't exist then add a handler to restart Apache if it is newly installed. /var/www/html/index.nginx-debian.html - name: Conditional Install and Restart Apache
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Check if NGINX Default Page Exists
      ansible.builtin.stat:
        path: /var/www/html/index.nginx-debian.html
      register: nginx_page

    - name: Install Apache
      ansible.builtin.apt:
        name: apache2
        state: present
      when: not nginx_page.stat.exists
      notify: Restart Apache

  handlers:
    - name: Restart Apache
      listen: "Restart Apache"
      ansible.builtin.service:
        name: apache2
        state: restarted

# The stat module checks for the existence of the default NGINX page. The result is registered in nginx_page.
# The installation task uses the when condition to install Apache only if the file does not exist.
# If the installation task runs, it notifies the handler to restart Apache.
# The handler listens for the notification and uses the service module to restart Apache. Run the linter ansible-lint conditional_install_apache.yaml Execute the playbook on & inventory-webserver1.yaml inventory-webserver2.yaml # webserver1
ansible-playbook --key-file /root/.ssh/id_rsa_ansible -u root -i inventory-webserver1.yaml conditional_install_apache.yaml

#webserver2
ansible-playbook --key-file /root/.ssh/id_rsa_ansible -u root -i inventory-webserver2.yaml conditional_install_apache.yaml Confirm installation on server3 then check if it's installed on server1 & server2 ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_ansible root@server1 apache2 -V
ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_ansible root@server2 apache2 -V


ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_ansible root@server3 apache2 -V Recap Awesome effort! We just learned how to define Ansible playbooks and how to control the flow of execution using conditionals. Next, we'll look on variables, gathering facts about host machines and how to manage config files using templates. Also published here.

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