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title: "Ansible"
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ring: trial
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quadrant: platforms-and-aoe-services
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tags: [devops]
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[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.
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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.
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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.
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