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You declare the desired end state; the tool checks the current state and only changes what differs, then stops. * The tool gathers facts first and only converges when the current state differs from the desired one. * Define the end state. For example: "a web server is installed...

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026

Because a playbook is readable by everyone along the path from development to production, so dev/test, QA, operations, management and outsourcers all work from the same document. * Every role from development to production reads and runs the same playbook. * A playbook is a numb...

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026

An inventory that is generated at run time from an external source (a cloud API, a CMDB, a virtualisation platform) instead of being typed into a static file. An inventory is the list of hosts Ansible manages, organised into groups. It can be: static: a text file you maintain by...

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026

Modules are the units of work that tasks run, usually on the managed host. Plugins extend Ansible itself on the control node, for example how it connects, where it gets its inventory, or how it shows output. Modules do the actual configuration work: package, copy, service, user....

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026

Collections are packages that bundle modules, plugins and roles. Modules used to all live inside Ansible itself, which became unmanageable, so they were split into separate collections and ansible-core keeps only ansible.builtin. Historically, thousands of modules for every cloud...

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026

PowerShell 3.0 or later (current Ansible releases require 5.1), PowerShell remoting configured (WinRM), and .NET Framework 4.0 or later. Python is not needed. Windows modules (listed in the Windows section of the Ansible module index, e.g. win_package, win_service) are written in...

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026

Error-prone: a person can skip a step or run one by mistake. Little evidence: hard to prove the steps were done correctly or had the intended result. Inconsistency: servers managed independently drift apart in their configuration. For many years system administration meant clic...

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026

In the CD (continuous delivery/deployment) part: after CI has built and tested the code, Ansible deploys it through review, staging and production. * CI builds and tests the code; Ansible does the CD half, deploying through review, staging and production. * A typical pipeline, f...

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026

In Ansible the central control node starts the communication and pushes configuration to the nodes. In pull-based tools, an agent on each node regularly fetches its configuration from a server. * With push, changes apply when the admin runs the playbook; with pull, at each agent...

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026

The engine has an inventory, modules, plugins and an API. Users and playbooks feed it, as do cloud and CMDB sources. It acts on hosts and network devices. * Clouds and CMDBs supply host information, users run playbooks, and the engine puts hosts and network devices into the desc...

Quiz: ITIA / Ansible Fundamentals: Automation, Architecture and the Automation Platform | updated: Oct 22, 2026