December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
Ansible is one of the most simple IT automation platforms in which you write Ansible scripts (YAML format) and tell Ansible on which servers it needs to be run; Ansible does the rest for you.
Due to its simplicity and reliability, Ansible was acquired by Red Hat in 2015.
One of the beauties of Ansible is that we don't really need a client installed on the remote servers. Ansible will SSH into the instance and will run the scripts that were written by the user.
The following diagram depicts how a Workstation (a laptop or server) running Ansible is able to deploy to any kind of server or network device that supports SSH:

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