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 **Git**, **GitHub**, **repositories**, and **Git commands** to work locally and independently.

We started with the background to **source control** and introduced **Git** as a source control system. We then looked into **GitHub**, an online platform to create and manage repositories. We went through the following:
- Create a repository.
- Create a file through **GitHub's web interface**.
- Commit the changes using the interface.

We observed that making changes may lead to issues when collaborating with others on the project as multiple collaborators might change the same file.

After that, we looked into how you can work on that same repository locally. We introduced **Git commands** and understood the different __areas__ your files/changes were in at a certain point. Changes can be in the following **areas**:
- Working (__Untracked__) 
- Staging
- Committed

We explored the areas and commands by looking at the following:
- Cloning a repository.
- Tracking changes.
  - Staging changes in **Git**. 
- Committing changes in **Git**.

 

A summary of the contents covered in the 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

Summary