Ansible project
The Ansible project is a build-up of functionalities that come from the original company, AnsibleWorks. It is a community-built automation engine. It is free, open source, and available for anyone to download or install on any Linux OS, using the package manager, source compiling, or Python PyPI. It is very simple, powerful, and agentless.
To use the Ansible automation engine, users do not need any third-party applications or interfaces. They can simply send a command or write a playbook and execute it directly to the engine. This allows the user to access a variety of predefined modules, plugins, and APIs working as building blocks for managing all kinds of IT tasks and network objects. As it is agentless, Ansible relies ...
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