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Top 10 Ansible automation guides of 2022
Boost your productivity by automating your most frequent and monotonous tasks with Ansible.
Do you want to be more productive at your sysadmin tasks? Do you want to evolve your career and get a promotion? What about spending less time on monotonous activities and using that time for more creative and engaging tasks? Maybe even improve your work-life balance?
Well, if you answered YES to any of these questions, automation may hold the key. Here are some great articles covering Ansible automation that can help you achieve those goals.
These are the top 10 Ansible articles published on Enable Sysadmin in 2022, but there are many more articles about Ansible and automation on the site!
Incorporate these skills and increase your superpowers—you will become an automation hero in no time! And once you become proficient, share what you know by writing for Enable Sysadmin. We all learn best from one another. Happy coding!
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Here's how to optimize your Ansible playbooks to make them run faster.
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Use automation to reduce the time IT teams spend deploying patches and apply updates consistently across systems.
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Write a script in Python that fetches hosts using Nmap to generate dynamic inventories.
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Learn how to use the host_list and Nmap plugins to build inventory files for your Ansible playbooks.
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You can use the numeric codes returned by shell scripts or Ansible playbooks to identify problems and test the code.
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Learn how to analyze and use data in lists and dictionaries, a crucial skill for anything you want to do with Ansible.
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Although YAML is considered easy to understand, its syntax can be quite confusing. Use this guide to the basics.
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Learn how to use callback plugins to customize Ansible's output and then save that output to a file.
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Take advantage of Ansible's ecosystem to write inventory files for your playbooks.
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Ansible-lint goes beyond regular YAML linters by checking Ansible tasks themselves, potentially saving you from execution errors and many hours of debugging.
Roberto Nozaki
Roberto Nozaki (RHCSA/RHCE/RHCA) is an Automation Principal Consultant at Red Hat Canada where he specializes in IT automation with Ansible. More about me
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