Getting started with Red Hat Ansible Platform

Ready to get started with playbooks?

Playbooks record and execute Ansible’s configuration, deployment, and orchestration functions. They can describe a policy you want your remote systems to enforce, or a set of steps in a general IT process. If Ansible modules are the tools in your workshop, playbooks are your instruction manuals, and your inventory of hosts are your raw material. At a basic level, playbooks can be used to manage configurations of and deployments to remote machines. At a more advanced level, they can sequence multi-tier rollouts involving rolling updates, and can delegate actions to other hosts while interacting with monitoring servers and load balancers along the way.

Ansible is not only a near-instantaneous, superluminal, interstellar communication device, it’s also Earth's most popular solution for multi-cloud automation. In this session, we will create live code playbooks that let you deploy your application workloads across multiple Infrastructure-as-a-Service (aka cloud) players. This session is mostly focused on getting you started, but there will also be numerous tips and best practices that Ansible veterans will enjoy.