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Practical Ansible: Configuration Management from Start to Finish

Name: Practical Ansible: Configuration Management from Start to Finish
Author: Vincent Sesto
ISBN: 9781484264850

by Vincent Sesto

December 2020

Intermediate to advanced

276 pages

4h 7m

English

Apress

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V. SestoPractical Ansiblehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6485-0_1

1. Configuration Management with Ansible

Vincent Sesto¹

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Auckland, New Zealand

Working with technology, we probably all started in a similar way. We created smaller computer systems, usually on the laptop or PC we were working on, or maybe a small virtualized environment. As we developed our knowledge and experience, our systems grew larger and our need to keep all of these systems consistent grew with it.

Configuration management allows you to track items in your infrastructure and keep a track of what they do, what they’re supposed to look like, and what’s involved in creating them from the ground up. The type of information that this would include is ...

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