Before we finish the chapter, and also the book, I thought I would give a few examples of how I am using Ansible and interacting with Ansible: the first is interacting with Ansible using chat.
Real-world examples
The chat example
A few months ago, I needed to set up a demo to show automation working—however, I needed to be able to show the demo on my laptop or phone, which meant that I couldn't assume I had access to the command line.
The demo I came up with ended up using Slack and a few other tools that we haven't covered in this book, namely Hubot and Jenkins; before I go into any details, let's quickly have a look at the output of the demo running:
As you can see from the preceding output, I asked...
