Ansible Group Vars: Scaling Your Automation for Dev, QA, and Production Oct 04, 2025

In our last post, you learned how to stop writing brittle scripts by using Ansible Facts.  Your automation is now intelligent–it can discover a server's environment and adapt its actions accordingly.  It's a big step forward.

But with that success comes a new, more complex challenge: scale.

You're...

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What are Ansible Facts? Using System Data to Make Your Automation Smarter Sep 27, 2025

Last week, we unlocked the "Golden Rule" of safe automation: idempotency.  You now know that a reliable playbook leaves your system in the desired state, regardless of how many times you run it.  That confidence allows you to do more than just report; it lets you change things safely.

But what if y...

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