Ansible Playbooks

My previous two blog posts (YAML Ain’t Markup Language and Ansible Inventory Files) have been leading up to this. In the YAML post I mentioned that .yml files can be used to make Ansible Playbooks and that’s what we’ll be going over in this blog. If you’ve heard about tools like Chef, for example, it…

YAML Ain’t Markup Language

Markup Languages Let’s start at the beginning. What is a Markup Language? Simply put, it’s a way of writing something on a computer that might help it present as visually more appealing to the end user. For example HTML allows web designers to change font size, background color, and introduce paragraphs. There are other markup…