Ansible overview
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Ansible can be used for more than just configuration management like Puppet, Chef, and SaltStack. It can provision applications by ensuring required packages like Visual C++ libraries and Visual Studio are downloaded and installed on servers or virtual machines to streamline deploying applications for testing or other purposes. Ansible helps automate provisioning across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
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Ansible overview
- 1. Ansible is usually grouped along with other Configuration Management tools like Puppet, Chef, SaltStack etc. Well, let me tell you, Ansible is not just limited to Configuration Management. It can be used in many different ways too. I have mentioned some of them below: Provisioning: Your apps have to live somewhere. If you’re PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) booting and kickstarting bare-metal servers or Virtual Machines, or creating virtual or cloud instances from templates, Ansible & Ansible Tower helps to streamline this process. For example, if I want to test the debug version of an application that is built with Visual C++, I ought to meet some prerequisite requirements like having Visual C++ library DLLs (msvcr100d.dll). I will also need Visual Studio installed in your computer. This is when Ansible makes sure that the required packages are downloaded and installed in order to provision my application.