Problem scenario
You have two configuration management servers: one is an Ansible control server and another is a Salt Master server.  You want Ansible to deploy Salt Minion to the managed nodes.  You want the managed nodes of Ansible to receive configurations from the Salt Master server.  This way one team can use SaltStack and another team can use Ansible.  How do you do this?

Solution

Prerequisites
This assumes you have deployed Salt Master and Ansible. 

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Problem scenario
You want Ansible to create directories on managed nodes.  How do you write a playbook to do this?

Solution
Prerequisites
This assumes that you have installed and configured Ansible.  If you do not know how to deploy Ansible, see this posting if you are using a Red Hat derivative.  If you are using Linux SUSE,

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Problem scenario
You want every Linux server to have 2 GB of virtual memory.  You want to transfer a Bash script to each server and run it with sudoer privileges.  How do you transfer a file and execute it as a sudoer user?

Solution
1.  Install Ansible.  If you need directions on how to do this with RHEL, see this posting.  For SUSE,

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