No application stack is complete without data, and this is commonly stored in a database. There is a myriad of databases to choose from when your platform is Linux, and the whole topic of database management and administration often warrants entire books by itself—in fact, normally one book per database technology. In spite of the vastness of this topic, a little knowledge of Ansible can assist greatly when it comes to database administration.
Indeed, whether you are installing a new database server, or performing maintenance or administration tasks on an existing one, our original principles discussed in Chapter 1, Building a Standard Operating Environment on Linux still apply. Indeed, why would you go to all the trouble of standardizing your Linux environment and ensuring all changes are automated, only to insist on manual management of the database...
