Creating an Ansible Test Environment
In this article, I will go over the basics of what is required to get Ansible up and running so that you can create and run your own playbooks. I assume those that are reading this have at least some knowledge of what Ansible is, what languages it uses and the benefits of using Ansible. As somebody that has always been more focused on networking rather than coding, automation and orchestration, I feel that the IT industry has now reached a point where Network Engineers now need to know how to make tasks easier by using things such as Ansible, Python etc. Almost every day I hear the now common buzzwords ‘automation’ ‘orchestration’ and now I am being faced with projects where tools such as ansible code save me a lot of time. This is all well and good but if you’re like me and have never really done any coding or worked with Linux, it could be a little daunting when first starting out but don’t worry, there are tones of information out on the world wide web and more so the Ansible websit