Ansible is a popular open-source tool that provides automation, configuration management, and orchestration all in one. In this course, Anthony Sequeira introduces Ansible and explains the many reasons system administrators and DevOps engineers choose Ansible as part of their IT toolkit.
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.
Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.
It uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, so it's easy to deploy - and most importantly, it uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allow you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English.