Preface

This is an Ansible guidebook for beginner systems administrators. It aims to properly introduce Ansible as an automation and configuration management tool. Readers of the book should, by the end, master basic use of Ansible playbooks and modules by learning from real-life sample codes that demonstrate each module's functionality to help achieve infrastructure and task automation and orchestration. The book contains some extra advanced tips for those who want to go the extra mile and learn about and collaborate with the Ansible community.