Terminology

• ansible-navigator: It’s like Vim but for ansible
• Ansible playbook: A repeatable, reusable, simple configuration management and multi-machine deployment system
• Ansible inventory: Multiple managed nodes or “hosts” in your infrastructure
• Ansible play: a set of instruction which describe a set of configurations or steps to implement on managed hosts.
• Ansible playbook: text files written in YAML format to describe a set of plays. – Hosts: the managed hosts to perform the tasks on – Tasks: the operations to be performed by invoking Ansible modules and passing them the necessary options. – Become: privilege escalation in Playbooks, same as using -b in the ad hoc command.

Setting up lab environment

Citation

• Installing Ansible on WSL

Ansible in the Cloud

For this excercise, I use AWS:

1. Create an access key in AWS Console