Infrastructure as Code with Ansible: Tutorial
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Summary: Ansible was built for configuration management and gets regularly pressed into provisioning, and this tutorial takes that usage seriously with real AWS resources. It can provision, but it tracks no state, so idempotency comes from modules checking reality on every run. The strongest pattern pairs it with Terraform: one provisions, the other configures.
Who should read it: Ansible shops weighing whether they need Terraform, and IaC users curious what the playbook side offers.