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

We can install Ansible in macOS using the Homebrew package manager. It works on Intel and Apple silicon processors.

# The Homebrew package manager

Homebrew is an open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on macOS.
We can install Homebrew by typing the following command via the terminal:



/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

After a successful installation, the `brew` command-line utility is available in our system.

The main advantage of using the `brew` command is that it takes care of all the necessary dependencies. Another advantage is that the `brew` command manages the upgrade process when a new version of Ansible becomes available.
We can use an alternative, the Python `pip` package manager, but it requires more expertise as a developer.

# Searching packages using `brew`

We can use the `brew` command-line utility to search for all lists of Ansible packages. The full command looks like the following:

```
brew search ansible
```

The command output displays all the possible packages that match the search.
The tick symbol (`✔`) next to the name indicates the package has successfully been installed in the system.



Learn how to install Ansible on macOS using the Homebrew package manager.

Getting Started

Ansible Language

Ansible for Linux

Ansible Troubleshooting

Appendix: Ansible Installation

Conclusion

Install Ansible on macOS

The Homebrew package manager