Learning Python Networking - Second Edition
by José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington
Ansible introduction
Ansible (https://docs.ansible.com) is a software that automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. It is categorized as an orchestration tool. In other words, Ansible allows DevOps to manage their servers, configurations, and applications in a simple, robust, and parallel way.
Ansible is a deployment-automation tool, similar to Puppet and Chef, but its main characteristic is that it is agentless; that is, it does not need to install an agent on managed hosts.
This tool manages its different nodes through SSH for the provisioning of services based on Python and YAML to describe the actions to be carried out and the configurations that should be propagated to the different nodes. ...
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