Ansible (software)

Ansible is an open- source platform for orchestrating and general configuration and administration of computers. It combines software distribution, ad hoc command execution and configuration management. It manages network computer via SSH and does not require any additional software on the server to be managed. Modules use to output JSON and can be written in any programming language. The system uses YAML to formulate reusable descriptions of systems.

The platform was created by Michael DeHaan, author of the Provisioning Server application Cobbler and co-author of Func frameworks for remote administration. Users of Ansible, for example, the Fedora Project, Hewlett -Packard, Germany and the University of Thessaloniki. Ansible is included in the Fedora Linux distribution of the company Red Hat Inc. and it is also available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Scientific Linux on the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux ( EPEL ). In principle, Ansible with all Unix -like operating systems available.

On 4 March 2013, the company ansible Works was founded. She is instrumental in the development of Ansible and offers different products to around Ansible, including support and a browser-based user interface.