Summary

Explore how to build reusable configurations with Ansible by creating roles and site playbooks. Understand how to decouple roles using Ansible Galaxy, manage versioning, and centralize automation configuration. This lesson helps you automate infrastructure management efficiently and maintain consistency through structured coding practices.

We'll cover the following...

Configuration management
Site
Ansible roles
Decouple the Ansible roles
Delete the environments

This chapter introduced Site, Ansible roles, how to create and version them, and how to use the Ansible tooling to ensure productivity and reusability.

Configuration management

We started by introducing configuration management as a system engineering process to establish and maintain the consistency of your infrastructure through automation.

Configuration changes flow through a system in response to the following events:

A new machine has been deployed.
A configuration modification has been requested.
Validation of the current configuration is

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1.Getting Started

2.Ansible Development with Containers

3.Connect to the Cloud

4.Starting at the Source

5.Getting Started with Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

6.Deploy an Ansible Development Environment

7.Putting the Ansible Environment to Work

8.Take Inventory of the Infrastructure

9.Build Reusable Configurations

10.Dynamic Inventories for Scaling

11.Build a CI \ CD pipeline for Ansible with Github Actions

12.Appendix

Summary

Configuration management