{"id":200,"date":"2025-03-31T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2025-03-31T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:06:09","slug":"ansible","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/ansible\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a collection of notes about Ansible. Ansible is a contraction of &#8220;answerable&#8221;. In the novel Rocannon&#8217;s world by Ursula K Leguin it is an instant comms system \ud83d\ude42<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"355\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-71.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205\" style=\"width:151px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-71.png 355w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-71-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ansible is a python application for configuration management, bought by Redhat in 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red Hat Automation Controller (RHAC) provides REST API &amp; Web UI for central management &amp; reporting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ansible AWX is an open source version of RHAC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Puppet, Chef, Terraform are alternatives to Ansible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uses YAML (YAML aint markup language) configuration files to declaratively describe configuration of managed nodes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yaml<\/strong><br>Case sensitive. Indentation matters (usually 2 spaces). Lists start with a hyphen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Editions<\/strong><br><font color=\"navy\">ansible-core<\/font> is command line tools and essential modules only<br><font color=\"navy\">ansible<\/font> is the full distribution with all modules, plugins and roles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a collection of notes about Ansible. Ansible is a contraction of &#8220;answerable&#8221;. In the novel Rocannon&#8217;s world by Ursula K Leguin it is an instant comms system \ud83d\ude42 YamlCase sensitive. Indentation matters (usually 2 spaces). Lists start with a hyphen. Editionsansible-core is command line tools and essential modules onlyansible is the full distribution with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/ansible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ansible<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}