intermediate~4h

Ansible in Production

Handlers for change-triggered restarts, tags for selective execution, Vault for secrets, and how Ansible fits alongside Terraform in a real infrastructure pipeline.

Learning objectives

  • Use handlers and notify to restart services only when configuration actually changes
  • Apply tags to run a subset of a large playbook selectively
  • Encrypt sensitive variables with Ansible Vault
  • Articulate the division of responsibility between Terraform and Ansible

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Ansible in Production

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