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Create a directory called ansible-helloworld-playbook mkdir ansible-helloworld-playbook Create a file hosts and add remote systems how want to manage. As ansible relies on ssh to connect the machines, you should make sure they are already accessible to you in ssh from your computer. 192.168.1.1...

ansible -i hosts -m ping targethost -i hosts defines the path to inventory file targethost is the name of the host in the hosts file

Inventory is the Ansible way to track all the systems in your infrastructure. Here is a simple static inventory file containing a single system and the login credentials for Ansible. [targethost] 192.168.1.1 ansible_user=mrtuovinen ansible_ssh_pass=PassW0rd Write these lines for example to host...

We can provision remote systems with Ansible. You should have an SSH key-pair and you should take your SSH public key to the machine ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. The porpuse is you can login without any authorization. Prerequisites: Ansible You need an Inventory file (for ex.: development.ini...

This is the default ansible.cfg from Ansible github. # config file for ansible -- http://ansible.com/ # ============================================== # nearly all parameters can be overridden in ansible-playbook # or with command line flags. ansible will read ANSIBLE_CONFIG, # ansible.cfg in...