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Ansible is an IT automation tool that uses playbooks to deploy, manage, build, test, and configure servers and applications. It brings together aspects of environment management like deployment, configuration, and application control into a single tool. Using Ansible ensures consistency across server deployments and allows control over other applications through modules and plugins. Configuration management is key to DevOps and Ansible helps manage environments dynamically for continuous delivery of business functionality.

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Ansible and AWS: Linux Academy Linux Academy

Ansible is an IT automation tool that uses playbooks to deploy, manage, build, test, and configure servers and applications. It brings together aspects of environment management like deployment, configuration, and application control into a single tool. Using Ansible ensures consistency across server deployments and allows control over other applications through modules and plugins. Configuration management is key to DevOps and Ansible helps manage environments dynamically for continuous delivery of business functionality.

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Ansible and AWS


Introduction to Ansible
Linux Academy Introduction to Ansible

What is an Ansible?
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Ansible is, in short, an IT automation, configuration management and
provisioning tool.

It uses ‘playbooks’ to deploy, manage, build, test and configure anything


from full server environments to websites to custom compiled source code
for applications.

It brings together aspects of environment management that have been


traditionally separate and managed independently.
Linux Academy Introduction to Ansible

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Taking control of your environment
with a single tool has a numerous
advantages.

With Ansible, you can control server


deployment configuration, making
everything consistent. With modules
and plugins, you can build or ‘hook’
into other applications and control
them as well!
Linux Academy Introduction to Ansible

Summary
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Configuration management is an extremely complex topic but is absolutely


core to the heart of DevOps environments. Consistency is one of the
primary driving principles to being able to manage dynamically the overall
software and environment delivery lifecycle so that business enabling
functionality is constantly delivered.

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