Ansible

What Is Ansible?

Ansible is open-source automating configuration management tool. In this we will define tasks defintion and configure the softwares in the worker nodes from the manager node.

How Does Ansible Differ From Other Automation Tools?

Ansible comes with agentless architecture. It features such as simplicity, and ease of use provides seamless configuration management across different environments.

What Are Ansible Playbooks?

Ansible playbook are files defined with YAML syntax. This files are defined with a set of tasks and definitions for executing the remote hosts providing automation of workflows.

Can Ansible Manage Both On-premises And Cloud-based Infrastructure?

Yes, Ansible capable of managing both on-premises and cloud based infrastructures with providing modules support.

How Does Ansible Ensure Security During Automation Tasks?

Ansible ensure security with providing features such as encrypted data storage, secure channel communication and with privileged escalation mechanisms during automation of tasks.

Nowadays the IT culture is evolving with Agile practices and DevOps Culture, on idea of making the business plans, and features quickly to market and making users available. In this software development workflow configuring software and updating the patches to each system manually or through automation is time-consuming. In resolving this kind of problem ansible comes into play. Ansible works agentless with push-based mechanism that facilitates configuring the worker nodes that are connected to it remotely with the help of playbooks and ad-hoc commands.