Summary

In this chapter, you learned about Kubernetes configuration management challenges and how to scale your configuration management solution to manage multiple clusters and environments. We designed and developed a solution that is based on Ansible, and we went through practical hands-on examples to deploy this code.

We started by creating Ansible templates for Kubernetes objects and add-ons. Then, we developed the tasks and the playbook to execute the Ansible configuration in sequence against the targeted clusters.

This chapter introduced you to Ansible basic concepts. It showed you how to use the best practices of infrastructure and configuration as code, automation, and Ansible development.

This sets up the base for the coming chapters, where you will use this configuration management solution to configure and deploy clusters' add-ons and services where these add-ons are essential to reach production-readiness.

In the next chapter, you will learn about Kubernetes...