200-301 - Automation and Programmability - Section 6.6

Recognise the capabilities of configuration management mechanisms, including Ansible and Terraform.

Recognise how configuration management tools push a desired-state, idempotent configuration to many devices instead of hand-editing each, and that the v1.1 outline centres on agentless Ansible (playbooks over SSH) and Terraform (declarative infrastructure as code). Distinguish their roles: Ansible for device configuration and orchestration, Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure state.

Configuration managementAnsible playbooksTerraformIdempotencyInfrastructure as code

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