Brian Kemboi

25 Apr, 2024

Ansible Setup

Ansible is made up of several components but the main ones are :

1.host - this is the controller of the rest of the machines. Hosts are typically Linux machines since they require python and ssh installed. On a windows machine, one can use WSL for its creation.

2.nodes- these are the controlled nodes which can be made up of both Linux and Windows machines. For WIndows machines, WInRm is a requirement.

Ansible has several main files and folders:

1.ansible.cfg - the ansible configuration file

2.hosts - folder that contains the ansible inventory of managed hosts.