What is Ansible?

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• It gives you a usable abstraction layer above different operating systems (all linux flavours).
• One location to manage different cloud services: AWS, GCP , Azure, Ovirt, openstack, docker , etc...
• Can be extended via python plugins.
• Agentless communication with the hosts - works through SSH.
• No daemons or database setup to use Ansible.
• Running From Source (for the config files).
• ~450 builtin modules to manage all the system's aspects.
• 15K premade roles to download from Ansible Galaxy (Like Playbooks).