How Industries are using Ansible for automation

Samkit Shah
2 min readDec 1, 2020

What is Ansible?

Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.

Automation happens when one person meets a problem they never want to solve again. Down below are some of the key features of ansible and why industries are adopting ansible in their environment:

  • Simple and easy to learn
  • Agentless
  • Powerful

There are more than 8500+ companies that are using ansible

In industries ansible is used for:

  • ProvisionAnsible can provision and manage the storage in your infrastructure. From software-defined storage, cloud-based storage, or even hardware storage appliances, you can find a module to leverage Ansible’s common, powerful language.
  • Continuous Delivery — Creating a CI/CD pipeline requires buy-in from numerous teams. You can’t do it without a simple automation platform that everyone in your organization can use.
  • Security Automation — Keeping your data secure is the most crucial part. security policy can be integrated into other automated processes.
  • Orchestration- It allows you to define your infrastructure once and use it wherever and however you need. Once you’ve got Ansible playbooks that describe your multi-node production infrastructure, you can then use the same orchestration to deploy it on your laptop for testing.

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Samkit Shah

Machine Learning | Deep Learning | DevOps | MLOps | Cloud Computing | BigData