Ansible Academy · Lesson

Provision Then Configure in One Flow

Hand off new hosts to config plays.

Two Jobs, One Playbook

Provisioning makes a server exist. Configuring makes it useful. The real power is doing both in a single, smooth play. 🔗

Cloud creation tasks run locally against the AWS API, so the provisioning play targets localhost, not the new server.

- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - amazon.aws.ec2_instance: { name: web-01 }