The most popular use of Ansible is through remote execution. This architecture requires a network connection and SSH or Windows remoting. By using remote execution, we are essentially instructing Ansible to reach out over SSH to one or many machines, authenticate using a previously shared SSH or RM key, create a temporary TCP connection to one or more remote machines, and execute a set of playbook-based automations against them. If this sounds a bit confusing, let's take a look in depth at how this architecture and automation solution works.
To begin with, as a local administrator, we will need to pre-authorize the preferred Ansible user with the target machines. By doing this pre-authentication, ...
