Introduction to Ansible
Get familiarized with the basics of Ansible in this lesson.
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Creating infrastructure is fun when you automate it, but it sure can be cumbersome when you have to configure it manually. That is, until now. Welcome to Ansible!
You have already learned how to build infrastructure using Terraform through a concept called Infrastructure as Code. Tools like Terraform use the Infrastructure as Code approach to create virtual machines, virtual networks, some serverless features, and so on. But what about the configuration needed to then apply to those infrastructures? You need a way to automate the configuration of the resource.
Ansible
Ansible is an open-source configuration management tool owned by RedHat. Ansible can configure any resource on a server through its idempotent playbooks and even run ad-hoc scripts. Ansible takes complex or ...