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What is Ansible Anyway?

Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool. Check out my insights on Ansible, and how it can help you work smarter not harder.

Ansible explained

Definition

Ansible can manage powerful automation tasks and can adapt to many workflows and environments. At the same time, new users of Ansible can very quickly use it to become productive.

Carachteristics of the Tool

Ansible Is Simple

One great thing about ansible automation platform is its human-readable automation, easy to read, easy to understand whats going on. Ansible is simple because it uses a very simple language format called YAML that stands for Yet Another Markup Language. So ansible takes advantage of this for its playbooks to have that simplicity, this design makes them usable by every team, which allows people new to Ansible to get productive quickly.

Ansible Is Powerful

Uncle Ben said and i quote “a great power comes with great responsability” and ansible is no exception, it is a very powerful tool, it can model even highly complex IT workflows. It can be used to orchestrate an entire application environment no matter where it’s deployed. It can be used for configuration management, application deployment, cloud infrastructure control, provisioning, network automation, workflow automation. Ansible can be used to automate repetitive system administration tasks.

Ansible Is Agentless

Agentless means that ansible doesn’t require any software to be installed on the nodes you want to automate. Ansible uses SSH or other protocols to connect, authenticate and execute commands on the nodes you want to manage. This means that ansible has no agents to exploit, and there’s no additional software to install on your nodes. This also means that ansible has a very low overhead on your managed nodes, and a very fast learning curve for new users. Because there are no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, Ansible is more efficient and more secure than other alternatives.

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