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V. SestoPractical Ansiblehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8643-2_1

1. Configuration Management with Ansible

Vincent Sesto1  
(1)
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 ...

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