Ansible – best practices and troubleshooting

At this point in the chapter, you know the drill by now: we are going start by discussing best practices, but this time putting an Ansible spin on them.

Ansible – best practices

Here are some of the best practices for approaching your Ansible playbooks:

• Organize your playbooks with roles: Use roles to group related tasks, variables, files, and templates, making your playbooks easier to understand and maintain.

For more information on this, see Chapter 6, Building upon the Foundations, where we discussed roles and Ansible Galaxy in more detail – this also leads into our next bit of advice.

• Keep playbooks modular and reusable: Write modular playbooks and tasks that can be reused in different scenarios to minimize duplication and improve maintainability.

This is where we start to differ slightly from Terraform, as Ansible can also be used to access both Linux or Windows hosts and execute...