Gain insights into installing and using Ansible, delve into playbooks and inventory management, and learn about troubleshooting to efficiently automate IT tasks and enhance your IT career.

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In an era of IT environments, automation is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity. Ansible, an open-source IT automation tool, has become a go-to solution for streamlining IT tasks. This comprehensive course aims to equip you with both fundamental and advanced Ansible knowledge.

You'll start by installing Ansible, understanding its architecture, and diving into inventory management and playbook creation. Next, you'll explore variables, conditional statements, loops, handlers, roles, and collections. After that, the course dives into Ansible for Linux-specific tasks and troubleshooting techniques to resolve common problems like connection failures, missing parameters, and syntax errors. 

After completing this course, you'll have gained a robust understanding of Ansible, with the ability to create efficient playbooks, manage inventory, troubleshoot common problems, and automate a wide range of IT tasks. These skills will provide a strong foundation for a thriving career in IT infrastructure management.

Automating IT Infrastructure with Ansible

**Ansible facts** refer to variables related to remote hosts, providing details about the current host, such as the operating system, distribution, IP address, networking configuration, and storage configuration. These facts allow us to utilize the behavior or state of one system as the configuration of other systems.

# Using an Ansible ad hoc command to display facts

The best way to understand Ansible facts is to list them ourselves using an Ansible ad hoc command. We can use the following ad hoc command, replacing `host1.example.com` with our target host to obtain Ansible facts:

```
ansible -m setup host1.example.com
```

The following is the output of the command:



 Learn about Ansible facts, which allow us to report and trigger task execution when a specific situation occurs.


Facts

Learn about Ansible facts, which allow us to report and trigger task execution when a specific situation occurs.

Getting Started

Ansible Language

Ansible for Linux

Ansible Troubleshooting

Appendix: Ansible Installation

Conclusion

Facts

Using an Ansible ad hoc command to display facts