Summary

Now we have come to the end of not only the chapter but also our book. I have been trying to think of a way I can sum up Ansible, and I have managed to find it in a tweet (https://twitter.com/laserllama/status/976135074117808129) from Ansible creator Michael DeHaan, who, in response to a technical recruiter, said the following:

"Anyone using Ansible for a few months is as good as anyone using Ansible for three years. It's a simple tool on purpose."

That perfectly sums up my experience of Ansible and hopefully yours. Once you know the basics, it is very easy to quickly move on and start to build more and more complex playbooks, which can not only assist with deploying basic code and applications, but also with deploying complex cloud and even physical architectures.

Being able to not only reuse your own roles but have access to a large collection of a community...