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How to rock IT automation with ansible 🤘🦾:

Imagine the following situation - you have worked in IT for a while and some virtual machines + the services running on them need to be updated What do you do?

well… You could: 🔍 search for all the hostnames, 🤝 gather possible login options 🕵️ find username/password combinations 🤪 go mad because it’s taking too long OR!

You could use your “well prepared automation setup” that features: 🤖 ansible 🦾 packer 🧞‍♀️ terraform 🔐 vault WAYYYY cooler, right? RIGHT?

In case you dont know what all of these tools are - they are great 🤪 We shall start with ansible - the ez pz 🍋 patch engine

and the best part? you do _NOT_ have to install it on the client systems, only on your host / the controlling node! Ok great, but how do we start ➡️ 🏁

First, install ansible on your host machine via: sudo apt-get install ansible (if your host is debian/ubuntu based)

smash that y button and the enter key right afterwards and then wait until the install is finished ⏳ → ⌛️