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

This chapter introduced inventories, groups, and Ansible vault.

# Inventory
We started with introducing inventories, and the `INI` file as an inventory source. You learned how to create your first inventory and store group and host variables in it.

# Groups
We further introduced `groups` to keep our inventory clean and better organize the infrastructure. You learned how you could target different hosts based on the groups.

You organized the `host` and `group` variables in sub-directories to keep your inventory clean as the number of variables grows. The following subdirectories were introduced:
- `group_vars`
- `host_vars`

# Ansible Vault
Lastly, we introduced Ansible `vault` to keep your secrets secure. You learned two methods to secure your secrets with Ansible Vault:
- using encrypted files
- using encrypted strings

You practiced the following options with the `ansible-vault` command:
## Using encrypted files
- `encrypt`
- `edit`
- `view`
- `decrypt`

## Using encrypted strings
- `encrypt_string`
- `debug`

# Delete the environments
In case you are going to visit the rest of the course later, you can delete the infrastructure to avoid any unexpected bills. 

> <span>___Disclaimer___:  _**Run the playbook at your own risk!**_</span><br>
> It is highly recommended you use a development AWS account and Azure subscription before executing these playbooks.

You can review the _playbooks_ in the sections for [Deploy to Azure](https://www.educative.io/courses/ansible-zero-to-production-ready/deploy-to-azure#delete-the-environment) and [Deploy to AWS](https://www.educative.io/courses/ansible-zero-to-production-ready/deploy-to-aws#delete-the-environment) to delete the infrastructure.




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