Summary
In this chapter, we took a look at configuration management using Ansible. Ansible is an exciting technology that is exploding in popularity. It gives you the full power of configuration management utilities such as Chef or Puppet, without all the resource overhead. It allows you to automate just about everything. During our exploration, we walked through installing packages, copying files, and starting services. Near the end of the chapter, we worked through an example of using Ansible to provision a simple web server, and we even explored the pull method, which is very useful in dynamic environments. These concepts form the basis of knowledge that can be expanded to automate more complex rollouts.
The next chapter will be fun: we’ll set up our very own virtualization server with KVM. This is one of my favorite topics, and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it too. See you there!
