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Getting to know Ansible

Getting to know Ansible

- So, now that we've chosen our configuration management tool, let's learn more about it, get an idea for its syntax, its structure, and some of its abilities. So, I'm going to go to Google and just going to type in Ansible and I want to find the Ansible website, which is here. It's the very first result. And of course, let them know that I'm okay with the cookies. Great, so, now I'm in the Ansible website, which Ansible happens to be supported by Red Hat, and I want to learn more about the tool from the documentation perspective. So, of course, you can scroll through this website and learn more about what their marketing is saying about it, but I'd rather actually see the documentation because that's really what's telling me about the tool itself, how it works, how I can use it. So, as always with these tools that are kind of partially commercial, partially open source, you kind of have to dig a little bit to get to the developer stuff, and that's what we want. So, I'm going to go…

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