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Working with Ansible in small environments

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Working with Ansible in small environments

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So how do you typically use Ansible in a small environment? Well, in smaller environments, the common approach is to use the ansible and ansibleplaybook command directly on playbooks that are stored on the operator workstation. In a small environment, there is often only one or just a few people who is responsible for pushing the configuration as code to the managed assets. The Ansible operator, that's the person who manages Ansible, has to make sure that the required Ansible content collections are installed locally. Or else, playbooks won't work. Now, for organizational purposes, the introduction of content collections has made the management of the software project easier. But for the Ansible operator, it hasn't become easier. Because on occasions you will notice that a specific required collection is not present and you can't continue before you install it separately. Even if you are in smaller environments, it still does make a lot of sense to manage Playbook versions by using…

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