What Ansible Is, and Why It Has No Agent

Configuration management from first principles: the problem it solves, why Ansible needs nothing installed on your servers, and how a single run actually reaches a machine.

In this module

• The Problem Before the Tool
• Agentless: Nothing to Install on the Servers
• The Pieces: Control Node, Inventory, Modules, Plugins
• Reading a Run: ok, changed, failed, skipped