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