Some basic terms which are commonly used in Ansible, such as:
Controller Machine: The Controller machine is used to provisioning the servers, which is managed. This is the machine where Ansible is installed.
Inventory: An inventory is an initialization file which has details about the different servers you are managing.
Playbook: It is a code file that is written in the YAML format. A playbook contains the tasks that need to be automated or executed.
Task: Every task represents a single procedure that needs to be executed, e.g., installs a library.
Module: A module is the set of tasks that can be executed. Ansible has 100s of built-in modules, and also you can create custom ones.
Role: The role is a pre-defined way for organizing playbooks and other files to facilitate sharing and reusing portions of provisioning.
Play: The task executed from start to finish, or the execution of a playbook is called the play.
Facts: Facts are global variables which are store details about the system, such as network interfaces or operating system.
Handlers: Handlers are used to trigger the status of a service, such as restarting or stopping a service.
