How Industries are solving challenges using Ansible

Why Ansible?

Working in IT, you’re likely doing the same tasks over and over. What if you could solve problems once and then automate your solutions going forward?

Ansible is here to help.

Automate all the things

Ansible is the only automation engine that can automate the entire application lifecycle and continuous delivery pipeline.

How does Ansible work?

In Ansible there are two types of node. 1) Controller node 2) Target node. Controller node is used as the master which give commands to the target or slaves nodes. How controller node know which one is the controller node for that there is the concept of inventory there we define or give details about the target nodes. Ansible support YAML format and built over the python. Hence we install python library according to the requirement for our use cases.

Companies using Ansible

AUTOMATE VSPHERE, EXTEND CAPABILITIES OF VREALIZE AUTOMATION

Out of the box, Ansible ships with over 50 VMware modules supporting most use cases, including:

• Managing vSphere datacenters, clusters, hosts and guests
• VM template and snapshot management
• vSwitches, DNS settings, firewall rules and NAT gateway rules