Devconf.cz 2023

Ansible is capable of handling many powerful automation tasks with the flexibility to adapt to many use cases, environments and workflows. This flexibility, power and its broad adoption over the past 10 years has led to dozens of recommended practices, tips and tricks for automating with Ansible. Underlying all of these is a “zen” to developing effective solutions that achieve a balance of simplicity and power.

With a tip of the fedora to Tim Peter’s “The Zen of Python”, this talk shares these guiding principles, so you can apply it to getting things done and delivering reliable, consistent and repeatable automation solutions with your playbooks and roles. It will further illustrate these principles with their application to some real world examples to Ansible content.