Tag: ansible

Automate Docker container deployment with shell scripts, cron, and Ansible, stop SSHing in and restarting things by hand.

Speed up Ansible playbooks with pipelining, forks, fact caching, and async tasks, stop watching the spinning wheel on every play.

Stop copy-pasting Ansible tasks across playbooks, use include_tasks, import_tasks, and roles to keep your automation DRY and maintainable.

Ansible configures servers; Terraform provisions infrastructure, learn when to use each, how they overlap, and why you probably need both.

Automate a full WordPress stack deployment, Docker, nginx, and MySQL, using Ansible playbooks instead of clicking through wizards.

Ansible, Puppet, Salt, and Chef all do configuration management, but they're very different. Pick the right one before you commit.