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Configuration Management With Ansible vs Puppet
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What is Configuration Management?
Configuration Management is the process by which DevOps engineers manage the configurations, updates, and software installations of servers…
Concept
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Why Ansible over Puppet or Chef?
Several tools exist for Configuration Management, including Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Ansible. Ansible (now maintained by Red Hat) became the…
Tooling
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How Ansible Connects to Servers
Since Ansible is agentless, it relies on standard protocols to communicate with target servers. It uses SSH for Linux servers and WinRM…
Tooling
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Dynamic Inventory
In a dynamic cloud environment (like AWS auto-scaling), servers are constantly created and destroyed. Ansible's Dynamic Inventory feature…
Concept
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Disadvantages of Ansible
Windows Support: While supported, managing Windows environments is slightly more difficult than Linux.. Debugging: The debugging logs in…
Tooling
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