Hello everyone. We are slowly approaching the end of the "Ansible 101", the basics of Ansible. However, we still have one big topic to cover: Roles. So far, we have been writing and running our Ansible code in playbooks. Now, if we want to write Ansible code that we want…
Hello everyone. In this part of the Ansible guide, I want to introduce you to the Ansible Vault. We can use it to encrypt data in Ansible. Many tasks require credentials that we do not want to store in plain text as a variable. The Ansible Vault is included with…
Hello dear readers. I was just reading through the previous posts in the Ansible guide and realized that I forgot to mention two important Ansible features. One is check mode, which allows us to run playbooks in test mode. Changes are only shown in the output, not actually executed. Second,…