Ansible Glossary

The following Ansible specific terms are largely used throughout this guide:

Advantages to Ansible:

  1. Free, open-source, and backed by Red Hat.
  2. Minimal system requirements
  3. Agentless
  4. YAML Syntax (easy to read and understand for beginners)
  5. Developed in Python
  6. Strong community

How does it work?

  1. From the Control Node, Ansible connects and pushes modules to them. The modules are removed when they are done.