October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 20m
English
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Server Provisioning
In the previous chapter, you learned how to create the infrastructure that is going to hold our applications. As we saw, the infrastructure automation is something that's new, and we used Terraform for it. The problem with Terraform is that it can only be used to build the infrastructure, but in order to provision the software, we need something different.
Through this chapter, we are going to dive deep into Ansible as, together with Puppet and Chef, it is the most predominant server provisioning tool in the market right now.
Here are the main topics that will be covered in this chapter:
- Server provisioning software
- Chef
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Ansible
- Ansible configuration
- Ansible variables
- Variables
- Remote facts
- Templates ...