Industries are solving challenges using Ansible

Task Description

Create a Article, blog or Video on how industries are solving challenges using Ansible

What is Ansible and what can it automate?

You can use Ansible to automate three types of tasks:

• Provisioning
• Configuration management
• Application deployment

1587 companies reportedly use Ansible in their tech stacks, including LaunchDarkly, Tokopedia, and Alibaba Travels.

• LaunchDarkly.
• Tokopedia.
• Alibaba Travels.
• trivago.
• ViaVarejo.
• Hepsiburada.
• Revolut.
• Typeform.

The best part is that you don’t even need to know the commands used to accomplish a particular task. You just need to specify what state you want the system to be in and Ansible will take care of it. For example, to ensure that your web servers are running the latest version of Apache, you could use a playbook similar to the following and Ansible would handle the details.

Ansible Architecture

Now let’s talk a bit about the pieces that make up the Ansible environment.

1. Modules

2. Plugins

3. Inventories

4. Playbooks

5. APIs

What is Ansible Tower?

Ansible Tower is Red Hat’s commercial web-based solution for managing Ansible. Its best-known feature is an easy-to-use UI (user interface) for managing configurations and deployments, which is a significant improvement over the original UI. Ansible Tower contains the essential features of Ansible, especially those that are easier to see in a graphical format rather than a text-based format. It is free for up to 10 nodes. 

Advantages of Using Ansible With Docker

Ansible does a great job of automating Docker and operationalizing the process of building and deploying containers. If you’re managing a traditional IT system, for example, it can be hard to add container-tooling functionality. But Ansible removes the need to do processes manually. There are four main advantages of using Ansible with Docker:

1. Portability/Flexibility

2. Auditability

3. Management of Entire Environments

4. Similar Syntax

As mentioned, Ansible used YAML files for its playbooks. Docker uses its non-YAML scripts, but they are very similar and can do almost the same things.