Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

Ansible mode of operations

There are two modes of operations in which Ansible works:

• Push-based approach
• Pull-based approach

Until now, we have been working on a push-based approach, where we used to write Ansible Playbook and Push them to IPs that were mentioned in the Inventory file:

Although the push mode approach is great, the Ansible pull mode is also a great way to achieve certain use cases:

Ansible push	Ansible pull
Workstation calls the server	Server pulls the code from the repository
Immediate execution	Non-immediate execution
Slower for large-scale systems	Much faster for large-scale systems