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No agents to install — Ansible uses SSH. Configure 1 or 1,000 servers with identical playbooks. Idempotent: safe to run repeatedly.
Ansible playbooks read like documentation. Anyone on the team can understand what the automation does without being an expert.
ansible-playbook + OpenShift + Helm — Ansible automates not just servers but entire container platform deployments.
Ansible is the most widely-used configuration management tool. Terraform handles infrastructure, Ansible handles configuration.
Run Ansible:
pip install ansible ansible --version ansible all -i "host1,host2," -m ping ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml --check ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml -v ansible-vault create vars/secrets.yml ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.apache ansible-galaxy init my_new_role
