Summary

We have reached the end of the chapter and our book. I have been trying to think of a way to summarize Ansible; I believe the summary from the first edition of Learn Ansible still stands.

In response to a technical recruiter who reached out to him with a job role that required at least three years of Ansible experience when the tool had only been available for a short time, Ansible creator Michael DeHaan said the following in a now-deleted Tweet:

“Anyone using Ansible for a few months is as good as anyone using Ansible for three years. It’s a simple tool on purpose.”

That perfectly sums up my experience of Ansible and hopefully yours.

Once you know the basics, it is straightforward to move on and start building more complex playbooks quickly. These playbooks can assist with deploying basic code and applications as well as complex cloud and even physical architectures.

Reusing your roles and accessing an extensive collection of community-contributed...