Getting started with Ansible

The first thing to know about Ansible is that it changes constantly. New versions with exciting features are released regularly, and it shows no sign of slowing down whatsoever. There is a lot of excitement around this technology, so it’s regularly improving.

The reason I’m bringing this up is that although the examples in this book have been written for (and tested on) Ubuntu 22.04, new versions of Ansible are released regularly outside of Ubuntu’s repositories, and not only include new features but syntax changes as well. For our needs in this book, the version of Ansible included in the repositories should be more than fine. However, if you were to look at examples of Ansible playbooks online, they might be written for a newer version (or even an older version). If for any reason you have an issue with a particular example written for Ansible, a good first step in terms of troubleshooting is to compare the version of Ansible...