Ansible is an open source, agentless automation engine for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. Its first release was in 2012 and its basic version is free for both, personal and commercial use. The enterprise version, called Ansible Tower, provides GUI management and dashboards, REST API, role-based access control, and some more features.
We present the installation process and a description of how it can be used separately as well as together with Docker.