This is part one of a series on Anisble for network engineers. The series will concentrate
on Ansible as a configuration management tool for networking and is aimed at those with a basic
understanding of Ansible. If you are just starting out with Ansible, see my quick start guide
here
and...
Ansible is a configuration management platform that sits in the DevOps space along with
Puppet, Chef and
Salt Stack. Touted as being 'radically simple' its possible
to get value from Ansible quite quickly with no programming experience required.
Architecture
Ansible does not use agents...