• This is a great tool for managing local virtual machines to mimic real world infrastructure locally or in the cloud.

• Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code.

• It runs on many Unix-like systems, and can configure both Unix-like systems as well as Microsoft Windows.

• Ansible provisions servers managing their configurations & deploying applications either locally or in the cloud.It works by pushing changes to all servers(by default)

My plan is to develop this project in 2 phases.

Phase 1: Deploying Ansible & Vagrant locally.

Phase 2: Deploying Ansible & Vagrant to Google Cloud. -----> Cloud Solution

1. GitKraken - a Git GUI tool.

2. Debian based O.S (Parrot O.S).

3. VMWare Workstation.

4. Ubuntu Server.

I'm impressed as to the array of tools listed by the ubuntu server including the Google Cloud SDK.

Apparently 2 ubuntu servers can run simultaneously using the same network card but in different windowes,it was a success.

└──╼ $ sudo mkdir /etc/ansible

└──╼ $ sudo touch /etc/ansible/hosts

• The hosts file should contain the server(s) details,In my case:

[servers]

192.168.x.x

OR (i.e if you dont want to keep typing the SSH password)

192.168.x.x ansible_ssh_pass=xxxx ansible_ssh_user=user

└──╼ $ansible all -m ping

See memory usage

└──╼ $ ansible servers -a "free -m" -u [ubuntu_server_1]

└──╼ $ansible all -m setup ---> Gathering facts.

└──╼ $ ansible abc -m copy -a "src = /etc/yum.conf dest = /tmp/yum.conf" ---> Copying a file