Ansible is a configuration management tool.

Ansible is an open source IT Configuration Management, Deployment and Orchestartion Tool. It aims to provide large productivity gains to a wide variety of Automation Challenges.

Ansible History

--> Michael Dehaan developed Ansible and the ansible project begin in February 2012.

--> Redhat acquired the ansible tool in 2015.

--> Ansible is available for RHEL, Debian, CentOS, Oracle Linux.

--> Can use this tool whether your servers are in on-premises or in the cloud.

--> It turns your code into infrastructure i.e. Your Computing environment has some of the same attributes as your application.

Ansible is agentless tool.

Ansible is communcating to nodes using ssh protocol.