Configuration Management

How To Execute Ansible Playbooks to Automate Server Setup

• May 12, 2026
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Ansible is a modern configuration management tool that facilitates the task of setting up and maintaining remote servers. With a minimalist design intended to get users up and running quickly, it allows you to control one to hundreds of systems from a central location. This short guide demonstrates how to execute Ansible playbooks to automate server setup, using an example playbook that sets up an Nginx server with a single static HTML page.

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How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04

• May 12, 2026
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Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automated way from one central location. In this guide, we will discuss how to install Ansible on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine and go over some basics of how to use the software.

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How To Install Puppet 4 in a Master-Agent Setup on CentOS 7

• May 12, 2026
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In this tutorial, we will cover how to install open source Puppet 4 in a master-agent setup on CentOS 7. In this setup, the Puppet master server—which runs the Puppet Server software—can be used to control all your other servers, or Puppet agent nodes. Note that we’ll be using the Puppet Server package, instead of Passenger or any other runtime environment.

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How To Set Up Ansible Inventories

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In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to create Ansible inventory files and organize servers into groups and subgroups, how to set up host variables, and how to use patterns to control the execution of Ansible commands and playbooks per host and per group.

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How To Use Ansible with Terraform for Configuration Management

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Ansible and Terraform are not competing solutions, as they resolve different phases of infrastructure and software deployment. In this tutorial, you’ll deploy Droplets using Terraform, and then immediately after their creation, you’ll bootstrap the Droplets using Ansible.

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Infrastructure as Code Explained

• May 12, 2026
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In this article, we define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and explain the benefits of IaC in development and deployment workflows. We also start to learn about Terraform’s role in the IaC workflow and understand “what is ‘state’?” in IaC.

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Automated Provisioning of the cloud provider Cloud Servers with Salt Cloud on Ubuntu 12.04

• May 12, 2026
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This tutorial aims to provide the reader with a simplified, basic setup of an operable Salt Cloud master server. Users can then use this employ to automate the process of creating 1, 2 or a fleet of cloud servers.

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Gerenciamento de Configuração 101: Escrevendo Receitas do Chef

• May 12, 2026
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Em poucas palavras, o gerenciamento de configuração de servidor (também conhecido como IT Automation) é uma solução para transformar a sua administração de infraestrutura em uma base de código, descrevendo todos os processos necessários para fazer o deploy de um servidor em um…

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Erstellen eines Hashicorp-Vault-Servers mit Packer und Terraform in the cloud provider [Schnellstart]

• May 12, 2026
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Vault von Hashicorp ist ein Open-Source-Tool, um Geheimnisse und sensible Daten in dynamischen Cloud-Umgebungen sicher zu speichern. Packer und Terraform, ebenfalls von Hashicorp entwickelt,…

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How To Create and Use Templates in Ansible Playbooks

• May 12, 2026
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Create and use Jinja2 templates in Ansible playbooks for dynamic configs, variables, and loops to automate server configuration efficiently.

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