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Installing and Running Ansible
Welcome to this, our first chapter in the second edition of Learn Ansible. In this chapter, we will look at a few topics to introduce you to Ansible; these topics will familiarize you with the basics of what Ansible is and give you a few different use cases.
By the end of the chapter, you will have gotten hands-on with Ansible and covered the following:
- Who is behind Ansible?
- The differences between Ansible and other tools
- The problem Ansible solves
- How to install Ansible on macOS and Linux
- Running Ansible on Windows 11 using the Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Launching a test virtual machine
- An introduction to playbooks
Before we start talking about Ansible, let’s quickly discuss my background, how I came to ...
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