Practical Ansible 2

Getting Started with Ansible

Ansible enables you to easily deploy applications and systems consistently and repeatably using native communication protocols such as SSH and WinRM. Perhaps most importantly, Ansible is agentless and so requires nothing to be installed on the managed systems (except for Python, which, these days, is present on most systems). As a result, it enables you to build a simple yet robust automation platform for your environment.

Ansible is simple and straightforward to install and comes packaged for most modern systems. Its architecture is serverless as well as agentless, and so it has a minimal footprint. You can choose to run it from a central server or your own laptop—the choice is entirely yours. You can manage ...