Configuration management

Using the power of playbooks and inventory, IT administrators can use Ansible to execute an update, patch, or configuration modification on a number of hosts, network devices, and applications. Playbooks describe the infrastructure in both simple, human-readable terms for other people to use, and machine-parsable code that can be used on any machine running Ansible. The execution of an Ansible configuration is state-driven, which means that it does not need to check the system or service state to know how to adapt in order to increase the task's reliability.