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Gather system information with Ansible Facts
Ansible Facts are essential system information gathered from remote hosts during playbook execution. This information is crucial for making...
Enable Windows Remote Management (WinRM) for Ansible
By default, Ansible uses SSH on Linux machines. Although Windows supports an OpenSSH server, this method is not entirely...
Ansible conditionals and loops
An Ansible loop allows you to repeat a task or a set of tasks multiple times with different values,...
A simple Ansible roles example
If you want to deploy a web server like Apache or Nginx with Ansible, you can create a playbook...
Semaphore: A free and powerful Ansible GUI
GUI solutions for Ansible, such as Red Hat’s Ansible Tower and PagerDuty’s RunDeck, come with a significant license cost,...
Learn how to use Ansible variables with examples
Ansible variables store and manipulate data that can be accessed and utilized across playbooks, roles, and tasks. They allow...
Ansible service module examples
Ansible's service module is used to manage services on remote systems. The service module is handy for tasks related...
Dynamic and static Ansible inventory examples
The Ansible inventory is an essential element that defines the hosts and groups of hosts where Ansible operations are...
Ansible Playbook examples
An Ansible playbook is a YAML file that contains a set of instructions and configurations for automating tasks on...
Ansible shell module: Run remote shell commands
In the previous post of this Ansible beginner series, we covered the installation of Ansible, as well as some...
Ansible beginner tutorial
Ansible, an open-source automation platform, is rapidly gaining popularity among IT experts and organizations seeking simple yet powerful solutions...
Ansible yum module: Install RHEL/CentOS packages
The Ansible yum module manages packages using the yum package manager on CentOS and RPM-based Linux distributions, such as...
Install Ubuntu packages with the Ansible apt module
You can use the Ansible apt module to manage packages that use the apt package manager on Debian-based Linux...
Install Ansible on Windows
Ansible is an open-source configuration management platform from Red Hat. So isn't Ansible a Linux-only solution? While it is...
What is Ansible Galaxy?
Ansible Galaxy is your source for community content for Ansible, a popular multipurpose automation tool. In Ansible Galaxy, you...
Create an Ansible inventory file with psansible.inventory and an Ansible inventory script in PowerShell
The PowerShell module psansible.Inventory allows you to simplify the dynamic creation of your Ansible inventory with the help of...
How to deploy Ansible inside a Docker container
Deploying Ansible inside a Docker container is an easy way to have a lightweight, agile environment for using Ansible....
Automatic renewal of Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with Cloudflare using Ansible
Let's Encrypt offers a free, easy way to have SSL certificates that are generally secure and don't produce warnings...
Automate Windows without network connectivity with Ansible
You may think that network connectivity is a prerequisite on a target Windows machine before you can perform automation....























