@IgnaceQ said in If starting from scratch, would you suggest learning BASH or Ansible?:
Besides anisble there are other tools for remote tooling. In a linux world you need bash. this is a basic need.
On top of bash, it really depends on the environmnet you're in. I would suggest python on top of this. You can use python in ansible, chef, terraform, etc... Also on non linux environments, python is availlable (bsd, windows).
He needs Ansible because he's doing an Ansible based certification path.