Ansible: Automation Tool
- 2. AUTOMATION Automation is the creation of technology by which a process or procedure is performed with minimal human assistance and its application in order to control and monitor the production and delivery of various goods and services.
- 3. CONTENTS ● Ansible ● Key Features ● What Ansible Can Do ● Ansible Architecture ● How Ansible works ● Ansible Integrations ● Why Do We Need Ansible ● Who uses Ansible
- 4. ANSIBLE Ansible is an open source automation platform. It can help you with configuration management, application deployment, task automation. Ansible is a simple automation language that can perfectly describe an IT application infrastructure in Ansible Playbooks. It's an automation engine that runs Ansible Playbooks.
- 5. KEY FEATURES SIMPLE ● Human readable automation ● Tasks executed in order ● No special coding skills required POWERFUL ● App deployment ● Configuration management ● Workflow orchestration AGENTLESS ● Agentless architecture ● Uses OpenSSH & WinRM ● No agents to exploit or update
- 6. WHAT ANSIBLE CAN DO Ansible can automate three types of tasks: ● Provisioning: Set up the various servers you need in your infrastructure. ● Application deployment: Make DevOps easier by automating the deployment of internally developed applications to your production systems. ● Configuration management: Change the configuration of an application, OS, or device. ● It can automate IT environments whether they are hosted on traditional bare metal servers, virtualization platforms, or in the cloud.
- 8. ARCHITECTURE Ansible inventories are lists of hosts (nodes) along with their IP addresses, servers, databases etc. Playbooks define workflow of tasks that you written in a playbook. It is a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data. Modules are executed directly on remote hosts through playbooks. The modules can control system resources, like services, packages, or files. Plugins here are a special kind of modules. They get executed before a module is getting executed on the nodes.It get executed on the main control machine for logging purpose. Client machines to which ansible server connects and pushes the playbooks through SSH. It can be any kind of machine. Controller which is the Linux server.
- 9. HOW ANSIBLE WORKS It is a connection plug- in. Use the python ssh implementation to connect to targets.
- 10. ANSIBLE INTEGRATION There are 37 tools that integrate with Ansible. Some of the popular tools that integrate with Ansible are: ● Docker ● Kubernetes ● Amazon EC2 ● New Relic ● Google Comp ● Datadog ● Microsoft Auzre ● Twilio
- 11. WHY DO WE NEED ● To reduce the manual and hectic work of System Administor like installing software, changing configurations, and administering services on individual servers. ● To computing network to deploy and manage servers reliably and efficiently. ● For a project that requires repeatable processes and a consistent environment, such as provisioning IoT devices.
- 12. WHO USES ANSIBLE There are 8,257 companies that use Ansible. Top industries which uses Ansible.
- 13. WHO USES ANSIBLE Top Countries that use Ansible
- 14. IS THERE A FUTURE IN ANSIBLE YES! ● The companies are moving towards automation and they need simple and powerful tool for configuration of servers, databases, firewall, etc. ● As Ansible offers an agentless approach that distinguishes it from Puppet and Chef.
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