Ansible is not bash for you. Sergey Pechenko

I suggest that you read the decoding of the 2019 report by Sergei Pechenko "Ansible - this is not for you bash!"

A few words about me.

Engineer. I know something about IT and am ready to share this knowledge. Like people who come up with specific questions; they don’t like people who want someone to do everything for them.

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I had Ansible experience without a bunch of Terraform. It was a deployment, it was Amazon, it was five regions. When after two regions they said that a third was needed, I added several lines and unfolded.

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