Ansible
What is ansible? Ansible is an opensource IT configuration management, deployment and orchestration 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 began in February 2012. Redhat acquired the ansible tool in 2015. Ansible is available for RHEL, Debian, cent OS and oracle Linux. We can use this tool whether your servers are in on-premises or in cloud. It turns your code into infrastructure i.e. your computing environment has some of the same attributes as your application. Advantages: Ansible is free to use by everyone. Ansible is very consistent and light weight and no constrains regarding the OS or underlying hardware are present. It is very secure due to its agentless capabilities and open SSH security features. Ansible doesn't need any special system administrator skills to install and use it. It is push mechanism. Disadvantages: Insufficient user interface, th...