Ansible
Ansible is an open-source automation and configuration-management tool for configuring systems, deploying applications, and orchestrating tasks across managed hosts.
Road to Kubernetes
Ansible is an open-source automation tool for configuring systems and deploying applications.
- How it is used
- Automates repeatable installation and configuration of remote machines as part of an application deployment workflow.
- How deep it goes
- Builds a Python deployment playbook task by task, including packages, files, and handlers, while explicitly leaving Ansible’s wider options unexplored.
- Examples
- Uses NGINX installation and a Python application playbook with an apt package list, configuration files, handlers, and a GitHub Actions command.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch: assemble a Python deployment playbook and run it through a GitHub Actions workflow.
Acing the CCNA Exam: Volume 2 Advanced Networking and Security
Ansible is an open-source automation tool for configuring systems and deploying applications, typically without requiring agents on managed nodes.
- How it is used
- Automates and standardizes configuration management across growing networks from a centralized control node.
- How deep it goes
- Defines agentless push operation, file roles, modules, and tasks while remaining at a high-level operational view.
- Examples
- Uses router templates, YAML variables, interface addressing, OSPF commands, inventory, and playbooks as concrete artifacts.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure Ansible using inventories, templates, variables, playbooks, SSH, and NETCONF.
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Related concepts
- push modeluses · A push model is a communication pattern in which a producer or system proactively sends data, work, or updates to recipients rather than waiting for each to request them.
- configuration management toolkind of · A configuration management tool is software that defines, stores, applies, or maintains desired settings and states for applications, systems, or other managed resources.
- infrastructure as codekind of · Infrastructure as code is the practice of defining, provisioning, and managing computing infrastructure through machine-readable code or configuration rather than manual procedures.
- Ansible playbookused by · An Ansible playbook is a YAML-based automation definition specifying hosts, variables, and ordered tasks for configuring systems or deploying applications.
- goalconfigures · A goal is a desired outcome or state that an actor or system aims to achieve and that can guide action or evaluation.
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