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, we introduced tools and packages to connect to cloud providers, `AWS` and `Azure`, with your `Ansible` environment.

Let's do a recap of the objectives we set at the start of the chapter:
- Choose the connection method.
- Create environment variables.
- Verify connection to the cloud platform.

We have explored different `Ansible Modules` for connecting to both `AWS` and `Azure`. 

Both of them require accounts and security keys to be set up to connect with them. We exposed these keys as `Environment variables` within the ansible container.

Once exposed, you used `Ansible` to connect and create resources to verify that the connection works. 

# Dockerfile
As we advance, we will use different environments, one for AWS and one for Azure, to keep our settings compact.

## AWS
Your Ansible environment requires the following add-on packages to connect with `AWS`:
- `boto`
- `boto3`

A summary of the content covered in this chapter.

Summary