Ansible Basics

60 Days DevOps Challenge: Day 21

By Sandip Das · 26 March 2025 · 6 min read

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DevOps engineers should learn Ansible to automate configuration management and streamline infrastructure provisioning.

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Previous => Day 20: Amazon DynamoDB: Serverless NoSQL DB at any scale

💡Learning points:

🔹 What Ansible is and why it’s used in DevOps workflows
🔹 Understand agentless architecture (SSH-based)
🔹 Inventory files – how Ansible knows which machines to connect to
🔹 Ad-hoc commands – quick one-liner tasks across multiple servers
🔹 Modules – reusable components (e.g., ping, copy, yum, user, service)
🔹 Playbo

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