Ansible playbooks for configuration management

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Ansible automates server configuration and application deployment without agents. Playbooks are YAML files describing desired system state. hosts targets machines from the inventory. tasks execute modules like apt, copy, template, service, and user. handlers restart services only when notified of changes. roles organize related tasks, templates, and variables into reusable packages. Variables can be defined in group_vars, host_vars, or passed at runtime. when conditionals skip tasks based on facts or variables. with_items and loop iterate over lists. Jinja2 templates generate configuration files dynamically. become: yes escalates privileges with sudo. tags enable selective task execution. Idempotent tasks safely run repeatedly.