Was sind die Bedeutung von Ansible für die Programmierung?
What is the significance of Ansible for programming?
The importance of Ansible for programming is:
- Ansible is one of the preferred tools for automating processes. This refers to processes that would otherwise take a lot of time and often have to be carried out manually without professional quality control. Ansible offers several advantages over other tools of this type (e.g. Puppet, Chef, SaltStack etc.).
- Thanks to its minimal features, Ansible is easy to use with consistent efficiency. The system status is described using easy-to-write and read YAML files (= Ansible Playbooks).
- The tasks are controlled and grouped using playbooks. You write everything in the way you want the system to work. Frequently recurring elements are stored in playbook roles and can therefore be used multiple times.
- You don't need to install much, because all you need on the system is an SSH server, Ansible Git (Ansible Github) and a current Python installation (a scripting language that comes with every current Linux system).
- And the learning curve is steep. Ansible helps to retain the knowledge in the configuration (Ansible setup) so that a DevOps successor can simply continue working where they left off at any time. This is because the code serves as documentation and everything is reproducible.