What are Ansible and its uses?

1.	What are Ansible and its uses?
Answer» Ansible is a configuration management tool. It helps to AUTOMATE repetitive tasks and to achieve the desired state of systems. Redhat is an official vendor for Ansible. It is very simple and easy to use and because of this many organizations adopting it RAPIDLY. There is no need to learn any new language to work on Ansible. It USES YAML to write tasks, plays or playbooks. Ansible can be used in two ways, Ansible command LINE or Ansible Tower. Ansible can complement CI/CD pipeline greatly by making require configuration automatically with consistency. Thus, it helps to speed up the roll-out new changes or products to production. Ansible can be integrated with Jenkins to enhance CI/CD pipeline and to execute configuration tasks automatically from Jenkins. Ansible can also HELP in defining Infrastructure as a code, so you can deploy as many servers with consistent configuration.

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