Ansible
2. Features
- no agent required
- Uses YAML for its playbooks
- Idempotent applications
3. Key Components:
- Playbooks: YAML files describing automation tasks.
- Modules: Specific reusable scripts executed in steps of playbooks.
- Inventory: Listing of target machines for automation.
- Roles: Organizational way to manage playbooks tasks, variables, and files.
4. Benefits:
- Agentless design reduces resource overhead and simplifies management.
- Ansible, being agentless, can be more secure from a network topology perspective, reducing the points of failure compared to agent-based solutions like Puppet.
- Broad cross-platform support (Windows, UNIX, Linux).
- Large community support and extensive library of existing modules.
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