Ansible - code deployment made simple

Simple Deployment and Configuration

What is Ansible

  • You should make it easy to get servers running
  • Ansible aims to solve deployment issues
  • https://ansible.github.com
  • 3-in-1: Just like filipino coffee

Dependencies

  • Jinja2 (in case you want fancy templates of configuration files)
  • PyYAML (for settings configuration)
  • parameiko

Question

  • Why isn’t ansible pip installable?
  • How does this compare to Salt Stack?
  • Why YAML for configuration?