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Ansible: Zero to Production Ready

Summary

Explore how to use Ansible to communicate with remote Linux and Windows hosts through ad-hoc commands and playbooks. Understand setting up Nginx on Linux and IIS on Windows, managing permissions, and automating software installs with modules like win_chocolatey. Gain practical skills to handle infrastructure deployment and clean-up across environments safely.

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This chapter communicated and deployed infrastructure with the remote Linux and Windows hosts by using different Ansible ad-hoc commands and playbooks.

We started with ad-hoc commands to connect with Linux and Windows hosts. We introduced additional variables required to connect to both of them. They were as follows:

Linux

  • ansible_user
  • ansible_password
  • ansible_ssh_common_args
    • Disables host key checking

Windows

  • ansible_user
  • ansible_password
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