Automated

The Ansible automation tool makes it really easy to implement IT scenarios as code. We use structured YAML code to roll out Ansible in the form of AWX.

Andreas Stolzenberger

The everything-as-code trend is popular in IT today. The complete hardware and software configuration is stored in text files, and an automation tool rolls everything out. Fortunately, arcane file formats (e.g., sendmail.cf) are pretty much a thing of the past; instead, you can expect easily readable formats such as YAML and perhaps JSON. The information in these files can usually be converted into one of the other formats without loss. YAML is the preferred format of the Ansible automation tool, which is used here for as-code automation. Thanks to its modular structure, Ansible can control pretty much everything in the data center and the cloud, including rolling itself out from its command line. This scenario might sound strange, but in the automation-as-code example, it makes sense to roll out a…

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