Ansible Like a Pro — Part 3: Writing Your First Playbook with Navigator
Series: Ansible Like a Pro Part 1: Why Ansible Won Config Management — Config management landscape, why Ansible won, the 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 ← You are here — Inventories, your first real playbook, the navigator TUI versus stdout, artifacts and replay, and the first-week mistakes Part 4: Roles, Reuse, and Keeping It Honest — Planned Two parts of plumbing. That’s what you’ve sat through so far. Part 1 was the why, Part 2 was the container the why runs in. Neither of them configured a single server. ...