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Summary

  • Automation helps you mitigate human error and ensure that your IT infrastructure is in a consistent, correct state.

  • Ansible is an open source automation platform that can adapt to many workflows and environments.

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a fully supported version of Ansible that also includes a number of additional components and tools to help you develop, deploy, and manage your automation code.

  • Ansible can be used to manage many types of systems, including servers running Linux, servers running Microsoft Windows, and network devices.

  • Ansible Playbooks are human-readable text files that describe the desired state of an IT infrastructure.

  • Ansible connects to managed hosts using standard network protocols such as SSH, and runs code or commands on the managed hosts to ensure that they are in the state specified.

  • Ansible is built around an agentless architecture in which the Ansible software is only installed on a control node and in automation execution environments.

  • Automation content navigator (ansible-navigator) is a key tool that helps you develop and run your Ansible automation code.

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