Ansible is an open-source automation tool developed and released by Michael DeHaan and others in 2012. DeHaan calls it a "general-purpose automation pipeline" (see Resources for a link to the article ...

I've written about and trained folks on various DevOps tools through the years, and although they're awesome, it's obvious that most of them are designed from the mind of a developer. There's nothing ...

Jack Wallen takes you through the process of installing the Ansible configuration management system on the latest release of Ubuntu Server. Ansible makes it much easier for busy admins to manage a ...

Many server automation and orchestration solutions, like Puppet and Chef, rely on a mixture of solution-specific coding, Web UIs, and command-line tools to make the magic happen. Ansible is different.

Red Hat recently acquired Ansible, and Red Hat's Joe Fitzgerald discussed why his company believes that Ansible can and will be the foundation for enterprise-wide automation. Here's how Ansible ...

If there were an award for “most improved IT orchestration and configuration management tool,” Red Hat’s Ansible would be a top contender. Since its initial development by Michael DeHaan in 2012, it ...

This how-to shows how to use free Ansible software to automate configuration of Cisco routers and links to other Ansible modules that apply to other vendors' gear and support other functionality ...

Red Hat presented a vision during today’s keynote address at the Red Hat Summit that it believes Ansible can and will be the foundation for enterprise-wide automation. Red Hat, by the way, recently ...

The development tools of the Ansible automation software can now be installed in a package that is also available as a Windows or VS code container. Red Hat combines the Ansible development tools in ...