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Ansible for orchestration

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Ansible for orchestration

- [Instructor] We certainly realize at this point that Ansible is simple and straight forward, but don't let that fool you. Ansible can really engage in complex orchestrations for us. What exactly is orchestration? I find that many people will get it confused with automation. I like to think of automation referring to a single task, so we can automate something like the rebooting of a server by using a script that will carry out that single task. But orchestration is going to refer to the management of many automated tasks. And oftentimes, this is made complicated because there's going to be this complex ordering and the ordering of the automated tasks are going to have dependencies. So, we should do something if something happens or maybe we shouldn't do something if something happens. And also, we could have complex order of operations that we want to carry out as part of the orchestration. Now, let's really have some fun…

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