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Guides, tutorials, and deep dives into automation and infrastructure.
What an Ansible Task Really Costs
Count the SSH operations behind one Ansible module task, then see how pipelining, ControlPersist, forks, serial, throttle, run_once, and strategy choices shape a large fleet run.
How Ansible Actually Resolves Variables
A practical guide to the Ansible variable precedence rules that cause real playbook surprises.
The AAP 2.7 Architecture, Port by Port
Explore the AAP 2.7 enterprise topology as firewall boundaries, then trace a login, a job launch, an image pull, and an event trigger through the mandatory Platform Gateway.
Ansible Builder and Execution Environments
Build a small, testable Ansible execution environment with ansible-builder v3, then inspect its contents and prove it works before Automation Controller.
Getting Started with Ansible
See how Ansible turns inventory, modules, check mode, and idempotency into safe convergence across 10 hosts, changing only the one nginx server that drifted.