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BENEFITS

Why is Ansible popular?

➔ Efficient : Agentless, minimal setup ➔ Fast : Easy to learn/to remember, simple declarative language ➔ Scalable : Can managed thousands of nodes ➔ Secure : SSH transport ➔ Large community : thousands of roles on Ansible Galaxy

KEY COMPONENTS

Understanding Ansible terms ★ Modules (Tools) ★ Tasks ★ Inventory ★ Plays ★ Playbook (Plan)

MODULES

What is this? Bits of code copied to the target system. Executed to satisfy the task declaration. Customizable

MODULES Documentation

# LIST ALL MODULES
ansible-doc -l
# VIEW MODULE DOCUMENTATION
ansible-doc <module_name>