Ansible Playbook Essentials

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create multiple environments that map to the software development workflow or the phases. We started with a brief overview of inventory groups and inventory variables, specifically, the group_vars file. This was followed by the two approaches used to manage environments. Finally, we refactored our code, went on to create the dev environment, and tested it by overriding one variable from the environment. In the next chapter, you are going to learn about infrastructure orchestration and how Ansible shines when it comes to orchestrating complex infrastructure workflows, zero downtime deployments, and so on.