Gain insights into Ansible's core features like inventory, playbooks, and roles. Delve into writing playbooks, using Jinja2, and organize tasks for efficient, stable IT infrastructure management.

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Configuration management plays a pivotal role in maintaining a stable and organized IT infrastructure by enabling the systematic gathering of information from remote hosts, facilitating server provisioning, and streamlining application upgrades or deployments.

You will learn the core features of Ansible, such as inventory, variables, playbooks, roles, and handlers, which serve as the building blocks for configuration management. You will learn how to write playbooks that define and execute complex orchestration tasks with ease. Next, you’ll learn how to use roles to maintain consistency across configuration management projects and how to harness the power of Jinja2 to apply logic and control structures and generate configuration files dynamically.

After completing this course, you will be equipped with the necessary skills for customizing configurations, organizing automation tasks efficiently, and maintaining a desired state for your infrastructure.

Configuration Management Using Ansible

# What are configuration management tools?
**Configuration management tools** manage the configurations of a running infrastructure. There are other tools used for infrastructure automation, especially where container workloads and virtual machines are concerned. Let’s take a look at some common configuration management tools below.

**Ansible** is a powerful automation tool for cross-platform integrations. Although its primary use case is configuration management, it's also handy for provisioning resources. It uses the control node to provide configuration changes to several managed nodes using software components called modules. Configuration files are called **playbooks**, which are a combination of plays written in YAML. 

Discover the popular configuration management tools and learn how they work.

Getting Started

What Is Configuration Management?

Basics of Ansible

Major Concepts in Ansible

Ansible Variables and Other Elements

Manage Configuration with Ansible

Wrap Up

Deploy a Web Application Using Ansible

Configuration Management Tools

What are configuration management tools?

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