Copy, Paste, Pray: Life Before I Discovered Ansible

Manually deploying and managing servers can be time-consuming, error-prone, and inconsistent especially as environments scale. What if you could automate everything from server setup to application deployment with just a few lines of YAML? This workshop introduces Ansible, a powerful, agentless open source automation tool designed to simplify infrastructure management and deployment.
Whether you're a beginner or someone stuck in the manual deployment loop, this session will walk you through real-world use cases where Ansible shines the most, turning repetitive work into streamlined automation.

What We'll Cover:

1. Introduction to configuration hell

2. What is Ansible?

3. What are the alternatives and How does it compare to other tools like Chef, Puppet, and Terraform?

4. The life of a developer or sysadmin before and after Ansible

5. Getting Started with Ansible Installation and setup on local machine or virtual lab

6. Understanding inventory files, modules, and ad-hoc commands

7. Writing your first playbook

8. Taking about real-World Use Cases Automating infrastructure provisioning

9. Deploying web apps with Ansible

10. Live Demo

    1. Setting up a basic server (e.g., Ubuntu)

    2. Installing and configuring a web server using Ansible

    3. Deploying a simple app automatically

Why Attend?

• Learn how to eliminate repetitive tasks with automation

• Get hands-on with writing and executing Ansible playbooks

• Understand real-world deployment pipelines using open-source tools