Rakesh Kumar

In previous post we have understood the usage and basics of Ansible. Also we have have installed Ansible on RHEL8 and setup our Lab environment so that we can practice. Now this is time to move ahead and learn more about Ansible and see how we can use an intelligent configuration management automation tool in our environment. There are two types of automation approaches we can adopt in our environment for configuration management: - 1. Traditional Automation: - Automation using scripts which can be written in any scripting language (Shell, Perl, Python etc.). In this approach as per requirement we write a script and whenever we run this script it do the needful. This kind of automation works fine until there is any change in environment. But as we know this is not possible, our environment keep on changes and slight change may fail our automation completely. How? Example: - Configure httpd on RHEL6 , below are the simple commands we use to configure httpd in RHEL6. Which we can put