Ansible
An open-source IT automation platform that uses an agentless architecture, managing remote hosts via SSH. Automation workflows are defined in YAML-formatted Playbooks. Ansible supports operational automation scenarios including code deployment, network configuration, and cloud resource management.
Core Facts
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) refers to using declarative or imperative code files to define and manage cloud resources, rather than manually operating through a console.
YAML has become the de facto standard configuration language in the DevOps domain and is widely adopted by Kubernetes, Ansible, and GitHub Actions.
Timeline (last 90 days)
The mkdocstrings website currently displays a maintenance-mode banner, but it is still usable and widely deployed by large projects such as Ansible.
Historically, after Red Hat acquired Ansible and Microsoft acquired GitHub, the projects maintained a relatively strong open-source neutrality.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) refers to using declarative or imperative code files to define and manage cloud resources, rather than manually operating through a console.
OpenTofu and Ansible are typically used together: OpenTofu is responsible for resource creation and destruction, while Ansible handles software installation and configuration on machines.
Through playbooks written with OpenTofu and Ansible, the author can spin up different scenarios or DR bubbles on demand, currently focusing on OpenStack, Kubernetes, and business simulation environments.
Configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible, as well as GitOps controllers such as Flux and ArgoCD, have built-in configuration reconciliation mechanisms that periodically detect and forcibly correct drift.
Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform adopt a declarative style to describe the target state of cloud resources.
Jeff Geerling has a high profile in the fields of open source, Raspberry Pi, Ansible automation, and home labs.
Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes YAML are typical carriers of the IaC philosophy
Tools such as Ansible and Puppet are essentially imperative execution frameworks and are ill-suited to continuously monitoring and automatically correcting configuration drift at runtime.
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All Facts (16)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) refers to using declarative or imperative code files to define and manage cloud resources, rather than manually operating through a console.
75%VerifiedYAML has become the de facto standard configuration language in the DevOps domain and is widely adopted by Kubernetes, Ansible, and GitHub Actions.
70%UnverifiedThe mkdocstrings website currently displays a maintenance-mode banner, but it is still usable and widely deployed by large projects such as Ansible.
50%UnverifiedHistorically, after Red Hat acquired Ansible and Microsoft acquired GitHub, the projects maintained a relatively strong open-source neutrality.
50%UnverifiedOpenTofu and Ansible are typically used together: OpenTofu is responsible for resource creation and destruction, while Ansible handles software installation and configuration on machines.
50%UnverifiedThrough playbooks written with OpenTofu and Ansible, the author can spin up different scenarios or DR bubbles on demand, currently focusing on OpenStack, Kubernetes, and business simulation environments.
50%UnverifiedConfiguration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible, as well as GitOps controllers such as Flux and ArgoCD, have built-in configuration reconciliation mechanisms that periodically detect and forcibly correct drift.
50%UnverifiedInfrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform adopt a declarative style to describe the target state of cloud resources.
50%UnverifiedJeff Geerling has a high profile in the fields of open source, Raspberry Pi, Ansible automation, and home labs.
50%UnverifiedTerraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes YAML are typical carriers of the IaC philosophy
50%UnverifiedTools such as Ansible and Puppet are essentially imperative execution frameworks and are ill-suited to continuously monitoring and automatically correcting configuration drift at runtime.
50%UnverifiedNode-level configuration management has traditionally relied on external configuration management tools such as Ansible and Puppet, or manually maintained startup scripts.
50%UnverifiedConfiguration as Code refers to uniformly managing configuration information in the form of code under version control systems, with Terraform and Ansible being representative tools at the infrastructure level.
50%UnverifiedMany enterprises rely on tools such as Ansible and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) management.
50%UnverifiedAnsible implements a hybrid orchestration of procedural and declarative styles through YAML-format Playbooks.
50%UnverifiedInfrastructure as Code（IaC）的概念由 Chad Fowler 在2013年左右推广，代表工具包括 Terraform、Ansible 和 Pulumi
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