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Working with Ansible in large environments

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Working with Ansible in large environments

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When you are working with Ansible in large environments, the approach normally is a little bit different. So what exactly is different? Well, first you have multiple people, operators as well as developers who are using Ansible to manage different assets. And it's often a wide range of different assets that needs to be managed. So guaranteeing consistency is really the big thing, and in order to do so, the playbooks that contain the desired state should be centrally stored in a Git repository. Or any other centralized content management system, but Git repositories have really become the de facto standard nowadays. And to ensure that all staff has a ready-to-use environment, a fine-tuned version of Ansible Ansible Navigator containing all required content collections can be used. Ansible Navigator is based on a container, so you do have the requirement that the operator workstation needs to be able to run containers. And specific container images can be created that have all the…

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