SYS265 Entry for: Automation with Ansible - Oliver-Mustoe/Oliver-Mustoe-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki
In this Lab we configured a few VMs and used Ansible to manage of a them and other VMs in our environment.
Prerequisites
Setup notes
3 Expanded Ideas
These are 3 terms or topics from the lecture or lab that I wanted to learn more about, and my research results.
Ansible - Ansible it a automation tool for deploying software and configuring systems. It's main goals are ease of use and simplicity, while still being security and relatability focused.
SOURCES: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/index.html
Ansible Playbook - Playbooks are .yml files which contain ansible tasks so they are repeatable, re-usable, and contained in one place. Because all of the tasks are contained in one file, you can push out many tasks at once with a single playbook. The playbooks are expressed in YAML format.
SOURCES: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html
Chocolatey - Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows meant to assist in managing Windows software. It provides a simple, automated, and repeatable approach to Windows software management.