At a time when the configuration management market was dominated by Puppet and Chef, an open source project called Ansible emerged with a simpler approach to automating IT environments. An agentless ...

DevOps: What is it, and how can it help your business? Inspired by the world of just-in-time manufacturing and widely practised in 'greenfield' IT organisations such as web-scale businesses and ...

When Linux's sysadmin graybeards got their start, they all used the shell to manage systems. Years later, they also used system administration programs such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)'s Red ...

Many server automation and orchestration solutions, like Puppet and Chef, rely on a mixture of solution-specific coding, Web UIs, and command-line tools to make the magic happen. Ansible is different.

‘Automation is foundational. Not an option. Not tactical,’ Massimo Ferrari, Red Hat’s management strategy director, tells CRN in an interview. “You need automation, otherwise you won‘t be able to do ...

[Shenzhen, China, 6 April, 2017] Huawei today announced the release of its CloudEngine switch networking modules for Ansible, the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation ...

This how-to shows how to use free Ansible software to automate configuration of Cisco routers and links to other Ansible modules that apply to other vendors' gear and support other functionality ...

Entrust Datacard is the first commercial certification authority (CA) to build a module using Ansible that connects with its certificate management platform. Watch our latest webinar to see how we’ve ...

Infrastructure is configured declaratively ('infrastructure as code'), which, especially in combination with the management of configuration files in git repositories, enables very reliable deployment ...