Sometimes I want to quickly save some code changes that I am not ready to commit into a real branch. For example, I might be in the middle of a long refactoring and there is a complete mess that I do not want to show up in version control history: Git has the “stash” command which removes all uncommitted changes and saves them to a local data structure where they can be retrieve later. However, this comes at the disadvantage ...
Imagine you work on an application on a development server for several months until it is time to deploy it to a production system for the first time. Chances are, there are several necessary configuration tasks just waiting to be forgotten: firewall permissions, specific software libraries, file permissions and so on. Ansible offers a reproducible and automatable way to take care of these configurational changes for you – and the beauty is: it does not depend on a specific Linux ...