Beginning Ansible Concepts and Application: Provisioning, Configuring, and Managing Servers, Applications, and Their Dependencies

© Peter Membrey and Shaun R Smith 2022

S. R. Smith, P. MembreyBeginning Ansible Concepts and Applicationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8173-4_2

2. Your First Steps with Ansible

Shaun R Smith¹   and Peter Membrey²

(1)

Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong

(2)

Kowloon, Hong Kong

 

Climbing into the Driving Seat

Shaun remembers the start of his journey, being thrown in the deep end at a new job and abruptly passed a production system that had been developed in this up-and-coming new tool that nobody could quite remember the name of; seemingly nobody knew what it did either – the person responsible had left. The only certainty was that it was responsible for building all new production systems and had numerous layers of magical scripts that “hid” this ...