AUTOMATION WITH ANSIBLE

Palak Jain
2 min readDec 30, 2020

ANSIBLE

Ansible is a wonderful automation tool, which is also a requirement of the current world as the world needs automation with the easiness and simplicity of the usage of the tool. Ansible is actually a simple open-source IT engine that automates application deployment, intra service orchestration, cloud provisioning, and many other IT tools.

WHAT AUTOMATION IS?

AUTOMATION- Automation is the use of technology to perform tasks with reduced human assistance. Any industry that encounters repetitive tasks can use automation, but automation is more prevalent in the industries of manufacturing, robotics, as well as in the world of technology — in IT systems and business decision software.

HOW AUTOMATION CAN BE DONE?

ANSIBLE TOWER- Ansible Tower is the Enterprise Ansible Solution built on top of Ansible Engine, whereas Ansible is also known as the Ansible Engine is the command-line tool. It is easy to use and has clustering technology which means it bypasses the Single point of failure also it's easy to analyze the jobs etc. It is designed to be the hub for all types of automation tasks. The tower is free to use for up to 10 nodes and it has amazing support from ansible.

ORCHESTRATION-

Ansible orchestration allows to create and automate a playbook for orchestration. Then can use the playbooks to deploy Ansible orchestration. It is step-by-step automation in which if one automation fails then alternate steps can be used to save that failed Automation.

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