Introduction

Get introduced to state and configuration management. Also, learn how to manage infrastructure as code.

Ansible’s promise is configuration management. It’s how you move from ad-hoc and manual configuration to a consistent, reliable, and automated process. In infrastructure automation, two types of change need management:

  • state change
  • configuration change

State management

One example of a state change is restarting a service. It impacts the system without modifying the system’s configuration.

Configuration changes are the opposite. They make lasting modifications to the system, in some cases, and ...