Author: Hitesh Jethva

As your Ansible automation grows, managing everything inside a single playbook can get overwhelming. That’s where importing or including playbooks comes in handy. With import_playbook and include_tasks, you can break …

Managing your infrastructure at scale? Ansible inventories define which machines you’ll manage and how. Whether you’re working with a handful of servers or orchestrating thousands, organizing your Ansible inventory efficiently …

Have you ever had an Ansible task report “changed” even though it didn’t really change anything? Or worse, mark a task as “failed” when the error was harmless? That’s where …

Ever wondered how Ansible knows where to run your tasks? That’s the job of the hosts option in your playbooks. Whether you’re deploying updates to your web servers or gathering system …

Ever wanted to run an Ansible task only if a condition is met? Whether it’s checking the operating system, available memory, a custom variable, or the result of a previous …

Managing sudo access across servers manually can be tedious and risky. A small typo in the /etc/sudoers file could lock you out of root access. That’s why automating this task …

Managing user accounts is a fundamental task for any Linux administrator. With Ansible’s user module, you can automate the creation, modification, and removal of users and groups across multiple servers, …

Creating users with strong, random passwords is critical to maintaining system security. Instead of generating and managing these manually, you can automate the process using Ansible, saving time while reducing …

Managing system services dynamically is a common task in IT automation. The Ansible service_facts module helps you gather detailed information about all services running on a target host. You can …