Summary

In this chapter, you learned about some of the best practices that can be implemented in your Ansible development workflow. You explored the best practices for organizing Ansible artifacts, including playbooks, roles, variables, inventories, and other Ansible content. Then, you learned about the importance of storing the inventory separately based on the managed node environment, criticality, and other facts. You also learned how to use host variables and group variables to organize variables.

After that, you learned about some of the best practices for storing and managing credentials in Ansible, such as avoiding plain text passwords and separating secrets from regular variable files. Finally, you learned about the different best practices and optimization techniques for improving the efficiency of Ansible playbooks. Refer to the Further reading section to learn more about Ansible best practices.

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