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Confused about how Ansible fits in? Here's a comparison with some common tools.
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Accuracy is important, so corrections are VERY welcome if we've got something wrong.
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For space reasons, we can't list everybody's favorite management tool.
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Ansible mainly tries to be different in it's goals of minimalism, while also cutting across
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the categories of configuration management, deployment, and ad-hoc task firing.
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It strives to be a super-easy to use app, requiring no daemons or databases, and having
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a super-simple configuration management language that takes minutes to learn.
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Generally speaking, Ansible is answer to the question "why is the world's systems
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management software so complicated?" The code does not try to show off. It is an
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experiment in radical simplicity and encourages anyone to be able to easily contribute to it.
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<table>
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<tr>
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<td></td>
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<td>Chef</td>
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<td>Func</td>
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<td>Capistrano</td>
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<td>mCollective</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Purpose</td>
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<td>Config, Deployment</td>
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<td>Config, Deployment</td>
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<td>Ad-Hoc</td>
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<td>Deployment</td>
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<td>Deployment</td>
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<td>Ad-Hoc</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Inspirations</td>
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<td>Cobbler, Puppet, Func, Taboot</B></td>
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<td>cfengine</td>
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<td>puppet</td>
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<td>sysadmin SSH scripts</td>
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<td>sysadmin SSH scripts</td>
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<td>Func, puppet</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Config Language</td>
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<td><B>Simple YAML format</B></td>
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<td>Ruby code</td>
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<td>None</td>
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<td>None</td>
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<td>None</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Config Language Style</td>
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<td>Very rich & expressive</td>
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<td>None</td>
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<td>None</td>
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<td>None</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Config Ordering</td>
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<td>Simply ordered</td>
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<td>None</td>
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<td>Simply ordered</td>
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<td>None</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Communication</td>
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<td>SSL pull or push trigger(?)</td>
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<td>SSL push</td>
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<td>SSH</td>
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<td>AMQP</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Daemons Required?</td>
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<td>yes</td>
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<td>yes</td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td>yes</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Database Required</td>
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<td>Database Needed?</td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td>optional</td>
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<td>yes</td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td>optional</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Message Bus Required?</td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td>yes</td>
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<td>yes</td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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</tr>
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<td><B>yes?</B></td>
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<td>some</td>
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<td>no</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Message Bus Required</td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td>yes</td>
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<td>yes</td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td><B>no</B></td>
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<td>no</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Implemented In</td>
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<td>Ruby, Erlang</td>
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<td>Python</td>
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<td>Ruby</td>
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<td>Ruby</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Extensible In</td>
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<td>Ruby</td>
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<td>Python</td>
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<td>Ruby</td>
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<td>Ruby</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Codebase Size</td>
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<td>Large</td>
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<td>Medium</td>
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<td>Medium</td>
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<td>Medium</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Module Support</td>
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<td><B>Wide/Established</B></td>
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<td>Medium/Established</td>
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<td>Poor</td>
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<td>N/A?</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Users Targeted</td>
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<td>Sysadmins, web admins</td>
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<td>Sysadmins, developers</td>
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<td>Web admins</td>
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<td>Sysadmins</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Learning & Setup Curve</td>
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<td><B>Minimal<B></td>
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<td>High</td>
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<td>High</td>
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<td>Medium</td>
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<td>Medium</td>
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<td>Medium</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Can Easily Build Applications On It</td>
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<td>No</td>
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<td><B>Yes</B></td>
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<td>No</td>
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<td>Yes?</td>
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</tr>
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<td>Parallelism & Scaling Tech</td>
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<td>Adding More Erlang</td>
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<td>Fork/Merge</td>
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<td>No</td>
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<td>Message Bus</td>
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<td>Delegated Hierachies</td>
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<td>No</td>
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<td><B>Yes</B></td>
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<td>No</td>
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<td><B>Yes</B></td>
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</td>
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