Ansible – Introduction

Story of a Sad Administrator

• Admin is asked to deploy the application whenever manager wants
  
• The application which his company is building is ecommerce application
• Lets understand what the application needs are in terms of infra
  
• Lets see his work
• As per what we discussed
  • lots of installation steps
  • lots of configurations
  • repetitive work
• Next Challenges:
  • lots of demo setups to be done
• Only solution for him to adopt automation
  
• Automation options:
  • shell scripts:
    • Procedural: tell what commands to execute
  • Configuration management
    • Declarative: tell what you want