As we discovered in the previous chapters, Ansible offers unique, easy-to-comprehend implementations for creating automation, implementing Configuration Management solutions, maintaining infrastructure, and scaling out automation. Automation and Configuration Management implementations are developed and maintained using Ansible playbooks (as we discussed in the previous chapter), whereas infrastructure inventory is managed through one or many Ansible inventory hosts file. A playbook in Ansible is really quite simple to understand; it's simply a set of tasks to execute that are ordered in a structured format. These two very easy-to-understand concepts have helped pave the way and made Ansible as popular and robust as it is today.
The concept of an Ansible playbook is an easy one to grasp and understand. The same can be said for the the implementation...
