Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Configuration Management Essentials

If you are reading this book, you are most likely looking for a consistent way to provision infrastructure, deploy code, and maintain the operational consistency of environments. These items all fit under Configuration Management, or CM for short. Configuration Management represents a cornerstone of DevOps and is something that Ansible manages very well. Configuration Management represents a way of development where automation can be used to provision and enforce the state, consistency, and accuracy of a set of systems. In a DevOps-oriented environment, Configuration Management will become increasingly critical for maintaining development environments, QA apparatuses and systems, production environments, ...