What is the Ansible?

Definition and Features
Feb 22, 2024
What is the Ansible?

Introduction

Thank you for clicking through to my arcticle. I've been a DevOps engineer for 2 years in dev-team of 7 engineers.

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Topic

This article specifically discusses the definition and characteristics of ansible.

  • The definition of ansible.

  • The features of anbiles.

What is "Ansible"?

Ansible is a simple and powerful open source tools. It's designed as a tool for automating software setup, provisioning, management, and deployment. Ansible has a agentless structure and uses SSH to send commands to hosts.

Commonly, we called ansible as a configuration management tool.

What is the alternatives of Ansible?

  • Puppet

  • Chef

  • Salt

Why I'm choose Ansible?

"Puppet" and "Chef" have a lot of information and a lot of users. However, they are linguistically complex. "Salt" has less information and a thinner user base.

And "Puppet", "Chef" and "Salt" need to install agent tool. But, ansible is agent-less tool.

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