Ansible Fundamentals

Summary

An agentless configuration management tool that connects over SSH to configure servers — commonly used alongside (or instead of) Terraform for installing software and managing configuration on existing infrastructure.

• 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 why Ansible being agentless (no software needed on target machines) simplifies adoption.