Recently, I decided to take on a project to write an Ansible role/playbook combo for quick deployment of networking services required for VMware Tanzu. Today, I’m delighted to announce it’s first (working!) version 1.0…
If I were to pick the next most important feature of Ansible after playbooks, I think I’d say it’s the variables (both custom and built-in, known as Ansible Facts). Variables are very important as they can speed up your playbooks writing process and allow your plays to be far more advanced.
Welcome to the first ‘real’ post of the Ansible for Dummies series - in this episode, we’re going to look into the most important thing about Ansible - playbooks…
Before saying anything else, I must admit I wasn’t paying attention to Ansible for a very long time - far longer than I’m willing to admit. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think I would be able to write a single playbook myself last year.