CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

Question 1

What is CI/CD?

Answer 1

CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) is a practice that automates the process of integrating CODE CHANGES and deploying them to production environments.

Question 2

What is Configuration Management and its benefits?

Answer 2

Configuration Management is the process of automating the management of system configurations to ensure consistency, compliance, and efficiency across IT infrastructure.

Question 3

Which Configuration Management tools are you familiar with?

Answer 3

I am familiar with Ansible for configuration management.

Question 4

How do you use Ansible in your environment?

Answer 4

In our environment, we use Ansible to automate server configurations and application deployments.

Question 5

How to run a playbook from the command line in Ansible?

Answer 5

You run a playbook from the command line in Ansible using the “ansible-playbook” command followed by the playbook filename.

Question 6

What are Ad-hoc commands in Ansible?

Answer 6

Ad-hoc commands in Ansible are used for quick, one-time tasks without the need for a playbook. Example: “ansible all -m ping” to ping all hosts.

Question 7

What is Ansible Tower?

Answer 7

Ansible Tower is a web-based UI and automation engine that provides centralized management of Ansible playbooks, inventories, and roles.

Question 8

Explain Ansible architecture.

Answer 8

Ansible architecture consists of a control node, managed nodes, inventory (list of managed nodes), modules (executable tasks), and playbooks (collections of tasks).5 Components