How have you used Ansible in your projects and what is your experience with this tool?

In my projects, I have used Ansible for automating server deployment and configuration, as well as for infrastructure as code management.

Main use cases:

• Automatic installation and configuration of software on multiple servers.
• Updating configurations and deploying applications.
• Managing users, access rights, and security settings.

My experience includes writing playbooks using Ansible modules, creating roles for code reuse, and integrating Ansible with CI/CD pipelines for automation of releases.

An example of a simple playbook for installing nginx:

- hosts: webservers
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Install nginx
      apt:
        name: nginx
        state: present
        update_cache: yes
    - name: Start and enable nginx
      service:
        name: nginx
        state: started
        enabled: yes