The document discusses how Ansible is used for orchestration at the Fedora Project. It highlights challenges system administrators face like managing new servers and applications. Traditional scripts do not scale well with complexity and code repetition. Ansible provides benefits like YAML configuration, parallel execution without agents, and ease of use compared to alternatives like Puppet. The Fedora Project is moving from Puppet to Ansible and welcomes contributions to port modules and help with the transition.







![Inventory file
$ cat /etc/ansible/hosts
[webservers]
web1.example.com
web2.example.com
[databases]
db1.example.com
db2.example.com
[smtp]
web1.example.com
Aditya Patawari Orchestration with Ansible at Fedora Project](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/ansible-140407090346-phpapp02/85/Orchestration-with-Ansible-at-Fedora-Project-8-320.jpg)






