4 years ago

Category: Software, firewall, automation, yaml, ansible

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. Ansible is a flexible and powerful tool that permits tasks to be written in plain YAML language and can do some amazing things.

Let’s spend some time talking about the problems you’ll need to tackle with Ansible on your local computer, and how AWX/Tower can do better. Ansible takes an input of YAML tasks and roles, and translates this into SSH (Linux-like) or WinRM (windows) commands.

Static inventories look like this: And that works great for a legacy infrastructure — where your hosts are pets — static, named, mutable, and long-lived.