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Practical Ansible 2
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Practical Ansible 2

by Daniel Oh, James Freeman, Fabio Alessandro Locati
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
410 pages
9h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Practical Ansible 2

Why automate network management?

The way that we design data centers has radically changed in the last 30 years. In the 90s, a typical data center was full of physical machines, each with a very specific purpose. In many companies, the servers were bought by different vendors based on the purpose of the machine. This meant that there was a need for machines, network devices, and storage devices and that those devices were bought, provisioned, configured, and delivered.

The big drawback here was the significant lag between identifying the need for the machine and its delivery. In that period, this was acceptable, since the majority of companies had very few systems and they tended to change very rarely. Also, this approach was very expensive ...

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