Ansible

lastmod 2025-12-15created 2018-07-178 edits

A configuration management tool.

Terraform vs Ansible

See Terraform#Terraform vs Ansible for details.

See also

• Infrastructure as Code
• CFEngine
• Chef
• Otter
• Puppet
• SaltStack
• Terraform (HashiCorp)
• Fabric
• pyinfra
• Kubespray

Favorite site

• What is Ansible?(What is ansible?)
• 143. (Ansible) Ansible concepts, setting up the environment, and basic usage summary
• Five Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier (Ansible techniques worth knowing in advance)
  • --step: prompt at each playbook step
  • Inline logging : run a script that dumps all variables as JSON
  • ansible-lint : checks for problems and anti-patterns
  • ansible-console : makes development easier
  • Ansible Debugger