Ansible is an agentless configuration management tool that helps operations teams manage installation, patching, and command execution across a set of servers. In this article I’ll describe how to deploy the latest release of Ansible using pip on Ubuntu 16.04, and then perform a quick validation against a client.
Ansible is an agentless configuration management tool that helps operations teams manage installation, patching, and command execution across a set of servers. Ansible was started as a Linux only solution, leveraging ssh to provide a management channel to a target server. However, starting at Ansible 1.7, support for Windows hosts was added by using Powershell … Ansible: Managing a Windows host using Ansible
Ansible is an agentless configuration management tool that helps operations teams manage installation, patching, and command execution across a set of servers. In this article I’ll describe how to deploy the latest release of Ansible using pip on Ubuntu 14.04, and then perform a quick validation against a client.
When automating software and infrastructure, it is not uncommon to need to supply a user id and password for installation or other operations. While it is certainly possible to pass these plaintext credentials directly in the state, this is not best practice. # not best practice!!! testdb_user: mysql_user.present: – name: frank – password: “test3rdb” – … SaltStack: Keeping Salt Pillar data encrypted using GPG