Ansible Automation – Introduction
Ansible is open source automation and orchestration software that can be used for automating most of your operations with IT infrastructure components including servers, storage, networks, and application platforms. Ansible is one of the most popular automation tools in the IT world now and has strong community support with more than 5,000 contributors around the world.
In this chapter we are going to cover the following topics:
- What is Ansible? Where should I use this automation tool?
- Deploying Ansible
- Configuring your managed nodes
As of today, Ansible is only available on Linux/Unix platforms, but that doesn't mean you cannot use Ansible to automate other operating systems (OSs) or devices. It is possible to use Ansible to automate almost all components involved in the IT infrastructure, as there are thousands of supported modules available to support Ansible automation.
