The document discusses Ansible, an open source IT automation tool. It summarizes that Ansible is: - The most popular open source IT automation tool on GitHub with thousands of contributors and modules. - Used for configuration management, application deployments, workflow orchestration, and provisioning. - Simple to use, agentless, powerful, efficient, secure, and helps automate tasks faster than other tools. - Widely adopted due to its support for many operating systems and cloud providers, small footprint, ability to integrate with other tools, and gentle learning curve.

1. lest way to automate IT.

2. The most popular open source IT
automation community on GitHub
● Support for many cloud providers
● A new modules contributed every day
● A new contributor added every ~1 ½ day
● IRC channel activity approaching OpenStack
● Ansible Galaxy: thousands of subscribers
● WW meetups taking place every week
● Top 5 most-contributed project on GitHub
● Almost 9000 stars & over 2700 forks on GitHub
● Almost 1000 Unique GitHub Contributors

3. Configuration Management
Application
Deployments
Workflow Orchestration
Provisioning
Powerful, flexible and Interoperable:

4. Efficient & Secure
/ Uses OpenSSH
/ No extra code to manage
/ More secure
/ More scalable
/ Ready for cloud-scale
/ More efficient
Automate Faster
/ Uses YAML for playbooks
/ Human-readable
/ No special coding skills needed
/ No single-point-of-knowledge problem
/ Tasks executed in order
/ Get productive quickly
Orchestration +
/ App deployment
/ Configuration management
/ Workflow orchestration
/ Provisioning
/ Team tools with Tower
/ Multiple tools in one
Simple. Agentless. Powerful.

5. Adoption benefits
● Wide OS support
For those heterogeneous environments or those that are homogeneous but
plan to change
● Works with the colo and the cloud
You can maintain either, both or migrate one to the other, your choice.
● Integrates with most clouds
A plethora of cloud modules and they can also be used inventory sources.
● Small footprint
It reuses common existing tools (ssh, sudo, python, etc). No need to modify
infrastructure by installing agents, no new firewall rules, no new
permissions.
● Plays well with others
It can substitute many other products or work with them for better results.
● Easy to expand plugin architecture

6. Adoption benefits
● Lower system maintenance costs
You can quickly and easily do security & performance updates.
● Deploy more reliably, faster, more often
Easy to structure release process, make it reproducible, reliable and
distributed.
● Automate recovery and failover
Faster time to recovery, less downtime, less risk.
● Mitigate the pain of migration
Make it easier to take advantage of new technologies, easily integrate the
into the cloud.
● Gentle learning curve and easy adaptation
Easy to adapt, non intrusive, plays well with existing infrastructure.
● Intelligible
Makes it easy to learn, audit and verify.

7. Ansible Inc, Products
Ansible Core

8. PUSH-BUTTON LAUNCH
Launch automation jobs with a button
ACCESS CONTROL
Role-based access control & LDAP integration
DELEGATION OF CREDENTIALS
Delegate credentials without giving away secrets
SCHEDULING
Schedule automation jobs (great for periodic remediation)
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
Graphically manage your internal & cloud resources
API & CLI
Documented RESTful API a
AUDITING
See a full Ansible job history with drill-in details
Ansible Tower
The best way to run Ansible in your organization.

9. Services
● HEALTH CHECK & IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW
Our services team will evaluate your deployment and configuration, verify
against current Ansible best-practices, and provide recommendations and
advice for future orchestration and automation projects.
● AUTOMATION JUMP START
We will help you start your orchestration project with an on-site engagement.
● MIGRATE TO ANSIBLE
Our experts will assist your move from your existing system or just current
configurations.
● CUSTOM CONSULTING
We can address challenging problems and your specific environment.
● TRAINING
Instructor-led courses that provide a hands-on learning environment, real-
world problem-solving activities.

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