Preface

The information technology sector is a fast-moving sector that always tries to accelerate. To keep up with this, companies need to be able to move quickly and iterate frequently. Until a few years back, this was mainly true for software, but now we start to see the necessity of developing infrastructure at a similar speed. Going forward, we will need to change the infrastructure we run our software on at the speed of the software itself.

In this scenario, many technologies, such as software-defined everything (storage, network, and compute, for example), will be key, but those technologies need to be managed in an equally scalable way, and that way will involve using Ansible and similar products.

Ansible is highly relevant today, since, unlike competing products, it is agentless, allowing for faster deployments, more security, and better auditability.