Ansible doesn’t require an agent to push the changes but it needs few configurations on the client side to access the server and perform the tasks without prompting for username/ password/other authentication. I would recommend using non-root user for Ansible setup but ensure that user is consistent across your environment. Let’s setup the servers for Ansible […]
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How to Install Ansible Engine on CentOS / RHEL
Installing the Ansible engine and set up the environment is pretty straightforward. Ansible engine can be installed on the majority of Linux flavors which includes CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, and Debian but it doesn’t support Windows, Solaris, and AIX. But there are no restrictions to participate as ansible clients. Ansible uses the SSH protocol to manage the Unix and Linux […]
What is Ansible ? How it Works ? Why do we need to use ?
Why do we need Configuration Management tool? Anyone who works as an operations engineer has witnessed a bunch of issues with manual configuration approach and more repetitive tasks which are time-consuming. How many times key resources left the company and new engineer struggle to understand the environment and start performing the tasks without escalation? Server configuration is a […]