Our Ansible Journey

We have been missing automated deployments all along.

Recently we looked at Ansible, Chef, Puppet and picked Ansible for out deployment automation.

It has the advantage of being agent-less which means you do not need an agent on the destination machines in order to manage them. Everything is done remotely via ssh.

Although having agents is not necessarily a bad thing and that will became part of the fabric of your provisioning but agent-less tools enable you to hit the ground faster.

I think the main advantage of Ansible is that it’s easy to learn and apply. We were able to automate the deployment of a relatively complex project in just few weeks.

It has numerous modules to do anything you might think of, such as yum, copy, run command, git, etc.

I am going to use it for my personal projects as well replacing bash scripts…