In this module, you will learn the ins and outs of Ansible with the goal of managing and automating your infrastructure and code’s deployment.

DevOps for Developers

Ansible is one of the leading tools for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. In this module, you will learn the ins and outs of Ansible with the goal of managing and automating your infrastructure and code’s deployment.

You will learn how to set up a docker environment, connect with cloud providers like AWS and Azure, manage infrastructure on AWS and Azure using Ansible, and lastly how to automate configuration and state management processes. Throughout each section, you will dive into the fundamentals of Ansible through practical and real-world scenarios.

By the end, you will have a great new skill that will open a lot of doors for you like cloud computing and DevOps. This will definitely be a good tool to put on your resume and will help you further your career.

Ansible

> ## Objective
  > The object of this chapter is to deploy an Ansible development environment to the cloud.
<br> 
> __Steps__
> 1. Deploy Ansible development environment.
> 2. Connect to the environment. <br>
>
> __Options__
> - Deploy to AWS.
> - Deploy to Azure.

Each cloud provider has its own set of tools. `Azure` has the __Azure Resource Manager__. `AWS` has __Cloudformation__. There are also several third-party tools, such as __Terraform__ and of course, __Ansible__.

Your _Ansible_ development environment will consist of two _virtual machines_, respectively running the
- _Windows_ server operating system
- _Linux_ operating system


You will configure these two _virtual machines_ using __Ansible__ as you progress throughout the course.

Get introduced to the objectives of this chapter.

Before We Begin

Getting Started

Ansible Development with Containers

Connect to the Cloud

Starting at the Source

Getting Started with Ad-Hoc Commands and Playbooks

Deploy an Ansible Development Environment

Putting the Ansible Environment to Work

Take Inventory of the Infrastructure

Build Reusable Configurations

Dynamic Inventories for Scaling

Build a CI \ CD pipeline for Ansible with Github Actions

Appendix

Conclusion

Introduction

Objective