What is Ansible? Ansible Tutorial

What is Ansible? Ansible Tutorial 

In this article you will learn about:

• What is Ansible?
• Features of the Ansible

Ansible has grown over the past few years to provide strong automation solutions that work for operators, administrators, and IT decision-makers across multiple industry domains. It is a leading enterprise automation solution for Red Hat. 

What is Ansible?

It is an open-source IT engine. It helps in automating application deployment, cloud provisioning, intra-service arrangements, and many other IT tools. It is very easy to deploy because it does not use any security infrastructure or representative. It uses playbooks to detail the automation jobs. The playbooks are developed in understandable language i.e YAML (Yet Another Markup Language). YAML is a human-readable data serialization language. It is used in configuring the files. It can be used in many different programs or applications that are used in keeping the data. It makes it very easy for humans to read, write and understand the YAML. Though, the major advantage of this is the IT infrastructure person can also read and understand the playbook and debug if required. Ansible is created as a multi-level deployment. It is capable of handling the entire IT infrastructure by detailing all the systems as interrelated. Ansible is complete without a representative which means Ansible works by connecting the nodes through the SSH( Secure Socket Shell key) automatically. If you want different connection methods, Ansible gives you that option. Once connected to the nodes, ansible pushes small-sized programs which are known as “Ansible Modules”. Ansible runs that particular module on your nodes and erases them when finished. It manages the inventory in simple text files. It uses the host file where one can group the hosts and can control the actions of the particular group in the playbooks. 

Features of the Ansible:

• Automation Execution Environment: It provides the standard approach to building and distributing the environment that automation runs in, which reduces the complexity. 
• Automation Controller: It allows users of Red Hat to define, operate, scale, and envoy automation across their enterprise. 
• Automation Mesh: It enables customers to automate at scale in a cloud-native way. 
• Ansible content tools: it includes new tools designed to help make building and deploy execution environments. 
• Automation Hub: It gives a space for the customers to find quickly, use and extend the content supported by Red Hat.