- 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).