Chapter 4.  Handling Complex Deployment

You must be wondering why the chapter is named the way it is. The reason for this is so far, we've not yet reached a stage where you can deploy the playbooks in production, especially in complex situations. Complex situations include those where you have to interact with several (hundred or thousand) machines where each group of machines is dependent on another group or groups of machines. These groups may be dependent on each other for all or some transactions, to perform secure complex data backups and replications with master and slaves. In addition, there are several interesting and rather compelling features of Ansible that we've not yet looked at. In this chapter, we will cover all of them with examples. Our aim is that, by the end of this chapter, you should have a clear idea of how to write playbooks that can be deployed in production from a configuration management perspective. The following chapters will add to what...