3 years ago

The kinds of virtual infrastructures that define the cloud computing ecosystem demand a high level of automation. As the number of virtual servers used for individual deployments grows, the complexity of that widely distributed automation grows, too. Ansible, a relative newcomer to the IT automation and orchestration market, offers some unique and compelling features. Newer than Chef or Puppet, Ansible is the best configuration management, deployment, orchestration open source tool and also automation engine.

The power of Ansible is not limited to managing servers: it also can manage network switches, firewalls, and load balancers.