Learn ANSIBLE with Real Code Examples

Install Nginx on all web servers

Deploy Python app with virtualenv and dependencies

Configure firewall rules and user accounts

Sync configuration files using templates

Automate AWS EC2 provisioning and security groups

Check YAML syntax and indentation

Verify SSH connectivity to managed nodes

Use verbose mode (-vvv) to debug

Check for missing modules or roles

Ensure correct Python version on managed nodes

Test playbooks with --check mode

Validate tasks using ansible-lint

Dry-run on staging environments

Use molecule framework for role testing

Verify idempotency by running multiple times

Manual CLI runs from controller

Scheduled via cron or CI/CD pipelines

AWX/Tower job templates for managed execution

Dynamic inventories with cloud APIs

Integration with configuration drift detection

Ansible CLI

Ansible Galaxy

AWX (open-source Tower)

Ansible Lint

Collections and plugins from community

AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack modules

Docker and Kubernetes deployment modules

Network devices (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, etc.)

CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI)

Monitoring and logging integrations

Use roles and collections for reusability

Encrypt sensitive variables with vault

Test playbooks incrementally

Use dynamic inventories for cloud environments

Leverage Ansible Galaxy for community roles

Managing large inventories

Debugging idempotency issues

Handling complex role dependencies

Template syntax errors in Jinja2

Scaling agentless execution across hundreds of nodes