Configuration Management (Ansible Overview)

Summary

A complementary tool to Terraform — while Terraform provisions infrastructure, Ansible configures software and settings on existing servers, connecting agentlessly over SSH.

• 1Write a simple Ansible playbook that installs a package on a target machine.
• 2Learn the difference between Ansible's configuration management focus and Terraform's provisioning focus.
• 3Understand these tools are often used together: Terraform provisions, Ansible configures.