In this DevOps world, it sometimes appears the Dev half gets all the limelight, with Ops the forgotten half in the relationship. It’s almost as if the leading Dev tells the trailing Ops what to do, with almost everything “Ops” being whatever Dev says it should be. Ops, therefore, gets left behind, punted to the back, relegated to the bench.
I’d like to see more OpsDev happening. So let’s look at a handful of things Ansible can help you do with your day-to-day Ops life.