From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 1 Foundations of Ansible

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About provisioning

About provisioning

From the course: Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294) Cert Prep: 1 Foundations of Ansible

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About provisioning

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- Provisioning combines a set of actions to prepare a host with appropriate systems, data, and software, and make it ready for operation. The host that we provision could be a bare metal server, cloud platform, virtualized system, hypervisor, or even a network device. After bootstrapping, nodes can be connected to storage, added to load balancers, security patches, or even tasks executed. We can use Ansible to provision the host, and then configure it, deploy applications, and lastly, manage it. Provisioning with Ansible allows you to seamlessly transition into configuration management, orchestration, and application deployment using the same, simple, human readable automation language. Underneath virtualization and cloud platforms there are one or more physical servers. We can provision to bare-metal systems as Ansible integrates into many data center management invoke and enact provisioning steps. However…

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