Ansible

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A configuration management and automation tool using YAML playbooks. Agentless — connects to hosts via SSH to execute tasks. Idempotent — running the same playbook multiple times produces the same result. Used for server configuration, application deployment, and orchestration. Modules provide pre-built functionality.

Key Properties

• Playbooks
• Idempotent Tasks
• Agentless Architecture

Related

• Terraform (infrastructure provisioning; Ansible does configuration)
• GitOps (alternative approach to deployment automation)

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