In this chapter, you learned:
Automation is a key tool to mitigate human error and quickly ensure that your IT infrastructure is in a consistent, correct state.
Ansible is an open source automation platform that can adapt to many different workflows and environments.
Ansible can be used to manage many different types of systems, including servers running Linux, Microsoft Windows, or UNIX, and network devices.
Ansible Playbooks are human-readable text files that describe the desired state of an IT infrastructure.
Ansible is built around an agentless architecture in which Ansible is installed on a control node and clients do not need any special agent software.
Ansible connects to managed hosts using standard network protocols such as SSH, and runs code or commands on the managed hosts to ensure that they are in the state specified by Ansible.
Click CREATE to build all of the virtual machines needed for the classroom lab environment. This may take several minutes to complete. Once created the environment can then be stopped and restarted to pause your experience.
If you DELETE your lab, you will remove all of the virtual machines in your classroom and lose all of your progress.