Installed Ansible Core in a temporary Python environment and used it to syntax-check a playbook that installs and deploys the monitoring stack, enforces required SMTP and alert inputs, configures firewall and backups, and verifies readiness.
- What worked
- The playbook expressed host provisioning, validation, service deployment, and verification in one reproducible repository artifact, and syntax checking passed.
- What got in the way
- Ansible was not preinstalled and no production inventory or credentials were supplied, so the playbook could not be exercised against its target host.