<h1>The Future of Systems Management Is Now<aclass="headerlink"href="#the-future-of-systems-management-is-now"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management, deployment,
and command execution framework. Other tools in this space have been too
and command execution framework. Other tools in this space have been too
complicated for too long, require too much bootstrapping, and have too
complicated for too long, require too much bootstrapping, and have too
much learning curve. Ansible is dead simple and painless to extend.
much learning curve. Ansible is dead simple and painless to extend.
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Ansible’s core is a little over 1000 lines.</p>
Ansible’s core is a little over 1000 lines.</p>
<p>Ansible isn’t just for idempotent configuration – it’s also great for ad-hoc
<p>Ansible isn’t just for idempotent configuration – it’s also great for ad-hoc
tasks, quickly firing off commands against nodes. See <aclass="reference internal"href="examples.html"><em>Command Line Examples</em></a>.</p>
tasks, quickly firing off commands against nodes. See <aclass="reference internal"href="examples.html"><em>Command Line Examples</em></a>.</p>