Ansible For Everyone - Part 1

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Why you should read this blog Series?

If you are working on NetworkOps, SecOps, DevOps, ITOps & anyone who wants to automate their infrastructure.

Why Ansible?

Automation Automation Automation

• Orchestrate complex processes on an enterprise scale.
• Simple Automation and Management.
• No Agent - Agentless.
• Ansible executes locally
• Open Source solution for automation.
• Works on both Windows and Linux.
• Can be used on Public cloud and On-Prem.
• Cloud, Network & security automation.

Ansible-core

• In simple it's the CLI of ansible.

Playbook

• YAML templates are used to deploy the required infrastructure.

• Components of Playbook are Plays, Modules, Plugins, Inventory

Plays

• Top-level specifications for a group of tasks

Modules

• Most of the Modules are written in python and in windows it uses Powershell. These are the components with internal logic.

Plugins

• It enables the expansion of Ansible features.

Inventory

Multiple playbooks

Roles

• Reusable Playbooks

Collections

• Collections can have Modules, playbooks, Roles, Plugins Docs, and Tests.

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Experienced Cloud Technology Specialist with a demonstrated skillset of working with Emergency, NZ Police & Education industry