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 the basic constructs of Ansible to get started with automating our configurations and state. 

We looked into **ad-hoc** commands and how **idempotence** makes Ansible powerful. Ad-hoc commands provide a quick and easy way of executing tasks when using Ansible. 

We explored some of its use cases:
- Rebooting servers
- Managing services
- Managing files
- Fact gathering
- Connectivity testing

and some handy modules:
- `file`
- `stat`
- `copy`
- `replace`
- `Debug`

The concepts of ad-hoc commands port over to Ansible playbook language.

__Playbooks__ are the basis of _configuration management_, and _orchestrated automation_ with `Ansible`. They are designed for automating __repeatable__ tasks.

We introduced the contents of the playbook:
- Hosts
- Tasks
- Variables


You created and ran your first essential playbook to connect to a remote server, a container, which mimics a `ping` module. We will cover more advanced examples in the upcoming chapters.

 


 



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