Configuration management

What is "Ansible"?

📈 Ansible is DevOps tool and it is similar like chef means it is a Configuration management tool let’s Begins with a Story → suppose you have a big organization which have 100’s of servers Now a task is came to install git on that 100’s of servers …man responsible for doing this is System Administrator who is doing this manually which takes a lot of time…

!!! we have that tool and that is Ansible→ A Configuration Management Tool…!!!

➡️ But! First you need to connect all the nodes to ansible server which is done manually after that you will be able to automate the things…..

➡️ configuration management →It is a method through which we automate admin tasks.

➡️ It automates the task which the system administrator doing manually

Configuration management tool is of 2 types →

➡️ Pull based → In Pull Based it periodically check for the update from the main server to the nodes if update available it automatically install on the nodes connected with the server → chef and puppet is a pull based config tool.

➡️ Push based → In push based nodes is not going to the main server for the update the update is pushed to the nodes automatically for example the update of apps is pushed to your phone play store now it’s your choice whether you update or not → push based tool is Ansible when you need control in your hands so you take control of your own server for updating.

History of Ansible →

➡️ Michael Dehan developed Ansible in Feb 2012

➡️ Red Hat acquired the Ansible tool in 2015.

➡️ Ansible is available for RHEL, Debian, cent OS, Oracle Linux.

➡️ It is developed in Python background and also in Windows PowerShell.

➡️ You Can use this tool whether your server are in on premises or in the cloud.

➡️ It converted your code into infrastructure means you can say that it is a little bit called an Infrastructure building tool.💻 📈

Suggestions will be appreciated. Happy learning! 💡See you all in the next one.💻 👨‍✈️