Deployment with Docker

Usage

Now that we have been introduced to what Ansible looks like and how it operates, it is time to do something practical with it. What we will do at this point is make an Ansible deployment configuration to apply some of the system tweaks we covered in the previous chapter and have Docker ready for us on the machine after running the playbook.

This example is relatively simple but it should show pretty well the ease of use and power of a decent configuration management tooling. Ansible is also a massive topic that a small section like this just can not cover in as much detail as I would like to but the documentation is relatively good and you can find it at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/index.html.

This example (and others) can ...