Introduction to Ansible
Ansible is an open source configuration management solution that takes the form of a script performing user-defined actions via SSH on one or more machines. It automates tasks like installations across many machines while customizing configurations. The software has numerous extensions that make it almost never necessary to use raw Linux commands in scripts. All these modules also allow Ansible to test whether a task needs to be executed based on the machine’s state – for example, if instructed to start a process that is already running, Ansible will skip it and move to the next action. ...