What this book covers

Chapter 1, An Introduction to Ansible, discusses what problems Ansible has been developed to resolve, who wrote it, and talks about Red Hat's involvement following their acquisition of Ansible.

Chapter 2, Installing and Running Ansible, discusses how we will work through installing Ansible on macOS and Linux, after covering its background. We will also discuss why there is no native Windows installer and cover installing Ansible on the Ubuntu shell in Windows 10 Professional.

Chapter 3, The Ansible Commands, explains how, before moving onto writing and executing more advanced playbooks, we are going to take a look at the Ansible commands. Here, we will cover the usage of the set of commands that make up Ansible.

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