Ansible Control Node Server on Ubuntu Server 20.04

Ansible is an agentless automation tool that you install on a control node. From the control node, Ansible manages machines and other devices remotely (by default, over the SSH protocol).

Ansible Features:

• Configuration Management - Easily manage all of your servers. Change the configuration of an application, OS, or device, implement security policies and so much more.
• Application Deployment - Make DevOps easier by automating the deployment of internally developed applications to your servers.
• Orchestration - Ansible uses automated workflows, provisioning, and more to make orchestrating tasks easy
• Security and Compliance - Sitewide security policies can be implemented along with other automated processes
• Cloud Provisioning- You can provision cloud platforms, virtualized hosts, network devices, and bare-metal servers.
• Modules - Modules are like small programs that Ansible pushes out from a control machine to all the nodes or remote hosts.
• Plugins - Ansible comes with a number of plugins to use
• Inventories - All the machines youre using with Ansible (the control machine plus nodes) are listed in a single simple file
• Playbooks - A playbook is like a recipe or an set of instructions which tells Ansible what work it has to do when it connect to new machine.