Ansible Automation

This handles Ansible playbooks, roles, and inventory management for configuration and deployment across multiple servers. You'd reach for it when provisioning cloud instances, doing rolling application deployments, or keeping server configurations in sync. The quick start shows a basic three-role deployment with health checks and serial execution for zero-downtime updates. Reference guides cover playbook structure, inventory organization, and variable management. The best practices are solid reminders: use roles for modularity, leverage handlers for idempotency, always run check mode first, and keep secrets in vault. It's opinionated about avoiding shell commands when simpler modules exist, which is the right nudge for maintainable infrastructure code.