This document provides an introduction and overview of Ansible, including:
- Ansible is an open source IT automation tool that is agent-less, simple, and powerful for tasks like provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and more.
- It works by connecting to nodes and pushing small programs called modules over SSH to execute tasks.
- Key components include the inventory file defining hosts and groups, modules to run tasks, playbooks to run series of tasks on hosts, variables, templates, and roles to automatically load related content.
- The presenter will demonstrate Ansible playbooks, roles, and other concepts.