Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions

Ansible

Ansible is yet another configuration management tool that is mostly used on Linux but also has support for Windows. One aspect that differentiates Ansible from other tools is that it does not have a centralized server that hosts all of the desired states, nor does it work with agents. All commands executed by Ansible are executed using SSH.

Any server can initiate the deployment of a playbook against one or more items in an inventory. An Ansible inventory contains all of the servers that can be managed by Ansible. They can be grouped into one or more groups, which can be nested into other groups as well. Each individual server and every group is an inventory item. In Ansible, the desired state is written in playbooks. A playbook is ...