Summary

Ansible automation projects often start out small, but as people come to realize the power and simplicity of Ansible, both the code and the inventories tend to grow at an exponential pace (at least in my experience). It is important that in the push for greater automation, the Ansible automation code and the infrastructure itself don’t become another headache. By embedding a few good practices early on and applying them consistently throughout your automation journey with Ansible, you will find that managing your Ansible automation is easy and is a true benefit to your technology infrastructure.

In this chapter, you learned new ways of differentiating environments by OS type, as well as more about variable precedence and how to leverage it when working with host and group variables. You then explored the importance of the top-level playbook, before looking at how to make use of version control tools to manage your automation code. Finally, you explored the new techniques...