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Ansible

Configuration management tool for automating provisioning and maintaining desired state across multiple hosts from a single control node.

  • Overview

    What Ansible is, how it works, and initial SSH key setup.

  • Installation

    Installing Ansible on the control node.

  • Inventory

    Defining managed hosts and running ad hoc commands.

  • Variables

    Variables let you define values once and reuse them.

  • Vault

    Encrypting secrets and sensitive variables in playbooks and inventory.

  • Roles

    Structuring playbooks into reusable, portable units.

  • Playbooks

    Repeatable, ordered task definitions for configuring hosts.

  • Compose Templates

    Templates for running Docker containers with Ansible.