Manage containerized setups with Ansible Put a Bow on It

Cloud rollouts with Ansible, in which administrators create virtual machines (VMs) in clouds and set up their applications there, have changed as companies have increasingly started using containerized applications instead of VMs. Containers can greatly simplify managing, maintaining, and updating applications and infrastructures. However, the prerequisite remains that the application in question is suitable for containerized use. The platform of choice is, of course, Kubernetes, and in the concluding part of this article I introduce you to managing Kubernetes applications with Ansible. However, sometimes Kubernetes is too large and complicated. In branch installations, remote offices, and at the network edge, Kubernetes might not be needed, and a simple container setup with Podman will suffice. Kubernetes-style functionality for small installations can be implemented quite easily with the “LANP” stack. LANP Instead…