Ansible for Network Automation Overview Automation is now a core part of network management, and Ansible offers a simple yet powerful way to achieve it. Designed first for servers and later extende...

YAML Basics for Ansible Beginners YAML (“YAML Ain’t Markup Language”) is the backbone of Ansible playbooks. It is simple, human-readable, and designed for configuration tasks. Let’s walk through th...

Ansible Vagrant Lab Setup This section guides you through setting up a virtual lab environment using Vagrant and VirtualBox (or VMware) to practice Ansible automation. Vagrant simplifies the proces...

Playbook in Ansible Ansible Playbooks are YAML files used to define the automation tasks to be executed on managed nodes. Playbooks simplify configuration management, enabling organized, readable, ...

Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands Ad-hoc commands in Ansible are simple, one-liner commands used to perform quick tasks on managed nodes without the need for a full playbook. They are useful for testing conn...