Chapter 3: Using Ansible for Configuring IaaS Infrastructure

1. The role of Ansible as detailed in this chapter is to automate the configuration of a VM.
2. No. We cannot install Ansible on a Windows OS.
3. The two artifacts studied in this chapter that Ansible needs to run are the inventory and the playbook.
4. The option is --check.
5. The name of the utility used to encrypt and decrypt Ansible data is Ansible Vault.
6. When using dynamic inventory in Azure, the script is based on VM tags that are used to return the list of VMs.