Ops535 ansible lab

Overview

Ansible is an IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Ansible was designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, and models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

Ansible uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, and it uses a very simple language called "YAML", to compose an Ansible Playbook which allow you to describe your automation jobs in a very simple way.

For more detail information about ansible, check out the ansible web site at www.ansible.com

Objectives

In this lab, we explore the main components of the Ansible configuration management system and its operating environment. we also develop a simple playbook to manage the configuration of a CentOS 7.x VM. For more detail information about ansible, check out the ansible web site at https://www.ansible.com

Reference

Key Concepts

• YAML - a human-readable data serialization language & is commonly used for configuration files. To know more, your can check out the wikipedia page here