Ansible Like a Pro — Part 1: Why Ansible Won Config Management (and What Came Before)
Series: Ansible Like a Pro Part 1 ← You are here — Config management landscape, why Ansible won, architecture of ansible-navigator and execution environments Part 2: Building a Real Execution Environment — Pinned and private collections, Python dependency conflicts, the additional_build_steps escape hatch, a local registry for sharing Part 3: Writing Your First Playbook with Navigator — Inventories, your first real playbook, the navigator TUI versus stdout, artifacts and replay, and the first-week mistakes I’ve been doing config management for over a decade now. Puppet in 2012. Chef in 2014. Salt around 2016. Ansible since 2017. I’ve got the scars. ...