Task 11:-How companies are solving challenges using Ansible
What is Ansible?
Ansible is an open-source automation tool, or platform, used for IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, intraservice orchestration, and provisioning. Automation is crucial these days, with IT environments that are too complex and often need to scale too quickly for system administrators and developers to keep up if they had to do everything manually. Automation simplifies complex tasks, not just making developers’ jobs more manageable but allowing them to focus attention on other tasks that add value to an organization. In other words, it frees up time and increases efficiency. And Ansible, as noted above, is rapidly rising to the top in the world of automation tools
Ansible’s Features and Capabilities
- Configuration Management
- Application Deployment
- Security and Compliance
- Cloud Provisioning
- Orchestration
USE CASES
- Provisioning — All the services like websites, apps etc. needs to be deployed somewhere and ansible helps in provisioning the deployment environment like virtual machines, cloud platforms etc.
- Configuration Management — Ansible is widely being used as a configuration management tool.
- Application Deployment — When you define your application with Ansible, and manage the deployment with Ansible Tower
- Continuous delivery — Creating a CI/CD pipeline requires buy-in from numerous teams. You can’t do it without a simple automation platform that everyone in your organization can use.
- Security — When you define your security policy in Ansible, scanning, and remediation of security policy can be integrated into other automated processes.
- Orchestration — Configurations alone don’t define your environment.
Conclusion
I conclude that, configuration management tools offer you a way to control one to hundreds of servers from a centralized location, which can dramatically improve efficiency and integrity of your server infrastructure.
