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Practical Network Automation
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Practical Network Automation

by Abhishek Ratan
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
5h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Ansible overview and terminology

Ansible is an automation tool or platform, which is available as open source, and used to configure devices such as routers, switches, and various types of servers. Ansible's primary purpose is to configure three main type of tasks:

  • Configuration management: This is used to fetch and push configs on various devices that we call as inventory in Ansible. Based upon the type of inventory, Ansible is capable of pushing in bulk specific or full configs.
  • Application deployment: In server scenarios, many a time we need to bulk deploy some specific applications or patches. Ansible takes care of that as well as bulk uploading patches or applications on the server, installing on them, and even configuring the applications ...
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ISBN: 9781788299466