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Ansible ​

Ansible is an open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration.

Why Ansible? ​

  • Agentless (uses SSH).
  • Human-readable YAML playbooks.
  • Strong ecosystem of modules.

Getting Started ​

Install ​

bash
pip install ansible

First Inventory ​

inventory.ini

ini
[webservers]
192.168.56.10
192.168.56.11

First Playbook ​

site.yml

yaml
- name: Install Apache Webserver
  hosts: webservers
  become: yes

  tasks:
    - name: Ensure Apache is installed
      apt:
        name: apache2
        state: present

    - name: Ensure Apache is running
      service:
        name: apache2
        state: started

Run: ​

bash
ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini site.yml

More playbooks and homelab experiments with Ansible coming soon