Hire Ansible Experts | Nearshore Software Development

The Ansible evaluation is focused on architecture, idempotency, and security. Candidates are required to refactor a simple, monolithic Playbook into a multi-purpose, reusable solution using Roles and demonstrate the ability to use advanced features like handlers and loops. A critical test is their understanding of idempotency: candidates must explain how to write tasks that can be run multiple times without unintended side effects, ensuring configuration consistency. We rigorously assess their security discipline, requiring them to implement and justify the use of Ansible Vault for managing sensitive variables. For cloud environments, we test their ability to configure and use a Dynamic Inventory plugin (e.g., for AWS EC2 or Azure VMs), proving they can manage a fluid, auto-scaling infrastructure. Finally, we assess their knowledge of testing tools like Molecule and Ansible Lint to ensure they write robust, tested, and high-quality automation code.