Summary

Ansible is a very powerful tool, used to automate IT infrastructure. It contains many modules and libraries that cover almost everything in system and network automation, making software deployment, package management, and configuration management very easy. While Ansible can execute a single module in ad hoc mode, the real power of Ansible is in writing and developing playbooks.

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