📄️ Understanding Ansible Playbooks
Ansible is a powerful automation tool that allows you to manage your systems more efficiently. In the heart of Ansible, there are playbooks. They are essentially the scripts that Ansible uses to perform its automation tasks.
📄️ Creating your first Ansible Playbook
In this article, we will be creating our very first Ansible Playbook. But first, let's understand what an Ansible Playbook is. Playbooks are Ansible’s configuration, deployment, and orchestration language. They can describe a policy you want your remote systems to enforce, or a set of steps in a general IT process.
📄️ YAML basics for Ansible
Ansible playbooks are written in YAML. YAML, or "YAML Ain't Markup Language," is a human-friendly data serialization standard. It's often used for configuration files, but its simplicity makes it a broad-use language. Let's talk about the basics of YAML that you'll need to understand to write Ansible playbooks effectively.