The Concept of Idempotency in Ansible

Overview

Configuration management is critical for managing our infrastructure setup efficiently. With configuration management, we can easily keep track of the changes through the version control system. Keeping up with our growing IT infrastructure or maintaining reliability with configuration management becomes easier.

As depicted in the illustration above, configuration management helps to perform the following tasks:

• Adjust the configuration of remote servers: We can update the version of a particular software package using a configuration management tool like Ansible.
• Provision virtual machines: We can create

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