Ansible in a nutshell
According to the new trend of cloud infrastructure developers, every operational task must be capable of automation. Many system management tools offer automation capabilities and have been extended to cover more advanced features, such as emulating parts of a given system for a fast file definition validation. Of course, every infrastructure tool must show its capability of making an easy-to-use, realistic full test and deployment. Compared to Chef or Puppet, for example, Ansible could be reckoned to be the simplest form of IT orchestration and automation tool. This is because Ansible does not require any agent or daemon to be running on the managed host or instance. It simply needs a Secure Shell connection, and then ...
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