diff --git a/radar/2022-10-12/ansible.md b/radar/2022-10-12/ansible.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..276d244 --- /dev/null +++ b/radar/2022-10-12/ansible.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: "Ansible" +ring: trial +quadrant: platforms-and-aoe-services +--- + +[Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) is a tool used to describe infrastructure and applications and their configuration as code. It covers both the configuration and provisioning aspects of infrastructure and applications. + +It is a radically simple IT automation system based on SSH so that it can work without agents or exposed APIs. It handles configuration management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. + +It comes in handy when the client currently uses some virtual machines with docker/docker-compose, and no full-blown Kubernetes cluster is available or needed. \ No newline at end of file