Basics of Ansible

Learn about the basics of Ansible and how to set it up.

Overview

Ansible is an open-sourceThis is software available to anyone to contribute and use without any cost. software that is usually used to provision software components, manage system configuration, and deploy application code. It’s an agentless configuration management solution that doesn’t require the installation of agents on the target nodes. Rather, the connection is made over the network using an SSH connection for Linux/Unix hosts, Kerberos for Windows hosts, or similar connection mechanisms. Ansible is easy to use, and the learning curve is not steep because it employs YAML syntax for writing playbooks.

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