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What is Ansible?

At a high level, it’s an open-source tool that will automate the setup, configuration, and management of computers and servers. So, you have a list of tasks you need to do on multiple computers (usually servers), such as installing software or setting up user accounts. Instead of manually performing these tasks on each computer, which can be time-consuming, and if you’re anything like me and prone to errors, you can use Ansible. With Ansible, you create a simple, readable list of instructions once. Then Ansible takes those instructions and performs the tasks on all the targeted computers simultaneously, ensuring that each one is set up exactly as you specified. It’s one of those tools that you might not touch for weeks at a time in your career, but learning how it operates, in my opinion, is crucial.

Core Knowledge

I want to start with two diagrams that will help visualise how Ansible works. Pay close attention to the “Explained” bubbles.

Note: In a production cloud environment, we would want to keep SSH access to a minimum

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