Data manipulation for configuration management using Ansible

Ansible is widely adopted as a configuration management tool for both on-premise infrastructure and multi-cloud deployments. Most learning tracks focus on procedural programming concepts, learning playbook syntax. This talk focuses on techniques to ingest, manipulate and optimize configuration management data to drive the process. We examine techniques to create data sinks for audit and input to downstream workflows. Also highlighted is the application of relational, NoSQL and graph databases as well as sequential files used for configuration management.