Article on how industries are solving challenges using Ansible.

Hello to all the connections, today in this article we are going to take a brief look on the use cases of Ansible ,and how various companies and industries are solving their upcoming challenge. So let's first talk about the Ansible.

What is Ansible?

Ansible is an open-source automation platform, that allows users to write commands for Ansible in YAML, in others words we can say that it is a platform to do the different task on different connected server using single command(i.e. Automation).YAML is an Extensible Markup Language similar to XML and JSON. we write these yaml files, which is known as Playbooks.

Ansible automation engine has become the most used  configuration management tool.

Here are some facts about Ansible:

• It contains Powerful modules with easy to understand language.
• As it's an open source software so developers contributing and updating modules regularly * Over 1000 modules are serving but if you are unable to find a module for a specific task, you are able to create one.

Architecture of ansible

• Inventory: It is the file that contains information about the servers you are managing.
• Playbook: It is a file in which we write our code defined through tasks using YAML format.
• Module: It provides the diff packages or creating and changing files when we write in the playbook.
• Hosts: The hosts are systems which are getting automated by Ansible. It can be any kind of machine : Windows, Linux, RedHat etc.
• Networking: Ansible can also be used to automate different networks. It uses the same simple, powerful, and the agentless automation framework.

How different companies uses Ansible let's check it:

Ansible case study on : CISCO 

Cisco enables one of the tools of Ansible i.e. DevOps to accelerate application deployment and achieve higher efficiency in operating their data centers, the infrastructure needs to change and respond faster than ever to business needs. These changes can help you achieve an agile operational model by improving on automation, innovation, and consistency.

The Cisco Nexus platform allows you to easily improve flexibility in installing and deploying whatever protocol package or custom applications you need on the switch. We can also get open and full access to switch resources and data.

The Ansible integration with Cisco Nexus platforms enables customers to take advantage of programming and automating the infrastructure at scale with speed. Ansible automates devices ,then Push network configurations to maintain consistency across the infrastructure push network configurations to maintain consistency across the infrastructure optimizes network compliance and operation.

The combined Ansible and Cisco solution provides:

• Improve Speed and Agility
• Faster Adoption
• Speed IT Transformation
• Efficient Operational Model
• Leverage Open Ecosystem

Ansible case study on : GCP(Google Cloud Platfrom)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides scalable infrastructure and solutions to meet the needs of your organization. GCP enables your applications to take advantage of Google's significant infrastructure, utilizing their best-of-breed technology and innovation, and only pay for what you need when you need it.

The Ansible integration with GCP gives you everything you need to manage your IT infrastructure. From provisioning instances and autoscaling, custom networks and load balancing, and even managing DNS and cloud storage, it’s all provided. 

Advantages in Testing Integration:

• Use Ansible to launch instances in any GCP Zone, configure networking setups to accurately simulate real-world scenarios
• We can deploy our code: private disk images, startup scripts pointing to your own package repository and more -- all within our native Ansible Playbooks

Advantages in Production Deployment:

• It enable Service Accounts with specific access, enabling only those who need it to run your playbooks in production.
• It uses GCP Managed Instance Groups (Playbooks) and autoscaling to ensure your application can meet the needs of its users

So, we can say that Google is an Active Contributor to the Ansible Community . The Ansible open source community is a vibrant, fast-moving place that strives to get things done. Google thrives in open source, but also understands the reliability needs of its users to safely run their infrastructure. Google Engineering actively builds Ansible modules, contributes code and documentation, and helps users deliver their solutions with GCP.

There are many more companies who uses Ansible for their Automation and different tasks according to their requirement.

So , As we can see with the use of Ansible and it's tools  developers do their required task easily.

Thank You for reading this article.

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