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Infrastructure management with Ansible - Ansible Tutorial
From the course: Learning Ansible
Infrastructure management with Ansible
- [Instructor] Another really exciting aspect of Ansible is the fact that it cannot only help you when it comes to the management of configurations, but it can literally build and manage your infrastructures. This has led to a real resurgence in the popularity of Ansible. You see, with cloud technologies, we can use Ansible playbooks to build our infrastructure from the ground up, and with dynamic inventories we can be notified of inventory manipulations dynamically and our inventory can reflect what is being done in the cloud. Playbooks can literally provision the underlying hardware for us that we're going to be utilizing inside of the cloud. And Ansible does such a great job with this because it really is primed to manage the virtualization on top of that physical infrastructure. So here you have Ansible making sure the physical components are in place that we need, and then automating the virtualization on top of those…