In this chapter, we will explore one of the popular automation frameworks used by thousands of network and system engineers called Ansible, Ansible is used to administrate servers and network devices over multiple transport protocols such as SSH, Netconf, and API in order to deliver a reliable infrastructure.
We will start first by learning the terminologies used in ansible, how to construct an inventory file that contains the infrastructure access details, Building a robust Ansible playbook using features like conditions, loops, and template rendering.
Ansible belongs to the configuration management class of software; it is used to manage the configuration life cycle on multiple different devices and servers, making sure that the same steps are applied on all of them and help to create Infrastructure as a code (IaaC) environment.
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