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What is Ansible?

  • 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).