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

In this chapter, you set up your development environment and got it ready to build upon. For `AWS`, you deployed the following infrastructure:
- A Virtual Private Cloud(VPC)
- A subnet
- An internet gateway
- A route for public traffic into the VPC
- Windows EC2 instance with `Windows Server 2019` _Amazon Machine Image(AMI)_
- Linux EC2 instance with `Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8` _Amazon Machine Image(AMI)_

Similarly, for `Azure`, you deployed:
- Virtual network
- Subnet
- Public IP address
- Network Security Group 
- Network interface
- `Windows Server 2019` virtual machine 
- `Linux` virtual machine running `CentOS`

To deploy these resources using `Ansible`, we introduced different `Ansible Modules` for both [AWS](https://www.educative.io/courses/ansible-zero-to-production-ready/deploy-to-aws#ansible-modules) and [Azure](https://www.educative.io/courses/ansible-zero-to-production-ready/deploy-to-azure#ansible-modules).

Once deployed, we explored the connection options to content with the infrastructure using `Ansible` again. `Ansible` uses the following tools to connect to the virtual machines:
- `WinRM` to connect to Windows hosts.
- `SSH` to connect to Linux hosts.

You installed the missing tools in our environment to connect to the deployed instances:
- `sshpass`
- `winrm`

# 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.

# Dockerfile
To connect to the infrastructure deployed to both `AWS` and `Azure`, you installed the following packages:
- `sshpass` for connecting to Linux Hosts.
- `winrm` for connecting to Linux Hosts.

## AWS
Review the updated `Dockerfiles` for `AWS` below:


A summary of the content covered in this chapter.

Summary