Ansible
Ansible is what we are going to be using to develop the contents of the rest of the book. In my opinion, it is the easiest to learn and extend. It is also easy to understand and offers a fairly comprehensive open source version that works with all the features from Ansible. You can also buy a license of Ansible Tower (or similar) to run Ansible Playbooks in a bastion host configuration as Chef or Puppet.
Ansible is basically a domain-specific language (DSL) for executing operations on remote hosts that are defined in an inventory.
Ansible works by running playbooks in the desired servers via SSH, so unlike Chef or Puppet, we don't need to install anything in the remote hosts; we should just be able to SSH into them. A playbook is ...
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