Infrastructure and Automation with Ansible
If your day-to-day system administration or development work involves tedious and repetitive operations, Ansible could help you run your tasks while saving you precious time. Ansible is a tool for automating software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment workflows. Initially developed by Michael DeHaan in 2012, Ansible was acquired by Red Hat in 2015 and is now maintained as an open source project.
In this chapter, you’ll learn about the fundamental concepts of Ansible, along with a variety of hands-on examples. In particular, we’ll explore the following topics:
- Introducing Ansible architecture and configuration management
- Installing Ansible
- Working with Ansible
