Ansible: Stole a march on Automation

Ansible is a configuration management tool. We have had many ways to avoid manual configuration since 10 years ex: scripting in python, bash, shell, ruby and many other languages. But again these languages are imperative. We have to know what we want to do and how to do in this case to achieve configuration automation. Again we need to know about the Base OS related commands which differ from one OS to another. But ansible solves all these issues through its implementation using a declarative language.

But again we already have many tools in market that use declarative languages to implement configuration management on different OS, ex: chef etc. But again ansible differentiates among these tools through its key feature that is being agentless. That is , all we need to do is configure the controller node from where the ansible code will run and just have the internet connectivity to your target nodes. And here we go: all set to run the ansible code.

These key features makes it so much attractive that now a days lots of companies are adopting to use Ansible for configuration management.

“Using Ansible, we’ve been able to cut down certain processes from 17 hours to 3 minutes.” BRANDEN FAULLS (HOD Fitmap)

Ansible is the most popular open source automation tool on GitHub today with more than a quarter million downloads per month. With over 3,550 contributors submitting new modules all the time, rest assured that what you are automating is covered in Ansible already, or will be very soon.

I would like to thank Mr. Vimal Daga sir for introducing with such an amazing tool.

Thankyou for reading!