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At a time when the configuration management market was dominated by Puppet and Chef, an open source project called Ansible emerged with a simpler approach to automating IT environments. An agentless ...

Roles are the most complicated and yet simplest aspect of Ansible to learn. I've mentioned before that Ansible's ad-hoc mode often is overlooked as just a way to learn how to use Ansible. I couldn't ...

If you’re an IT professional interested either in becoming a DevOps professional or looking for simple solutions by automating your administration tasks, Ansible is a great place to start with as it ...

Ansible automates smart home setup, creating repeatable tasks for various devices and platforms within a Playbook. Ansible, an open-source IT automation tool backed by Red Hat, offers agentless, ...

The novelty of software-defined networks is already turning heads, especially for networking operations teams that want to automate configurations, management and security. But coding automation doesn ...

The Ansible open-source project was conceived at Red Hat Inc. a decade ago to reenvision the automation of IT operations and, eventually, drive the popularity of infrastructure as code. Coming off the ...

Infrastructure is configured declaratively ('infrastructure as code'), which, especially in combination with the management of configuration files in git repositories, enables very reliable deployment ...

I resisted setting up automation for my home lab for the longest time, partly because I wanted to manually do the process repeatedly, so that it would sink in to help with learning. That meant I ...