Configuration and Automation
Tools that configure servers and automate environments: Ansible, cloud-init and Vagrant.
Configuration and Automation
Vagrant
Vagrant is a HashiCorp tool that creates reproducible local virtual machines from a Vagrantfile, usually on VirtualBox.
Configuration and Automation
Ansible
Ansible is an agentless automation tool that configures servers and deploys applications over SSH using YAML playbooks.
Configuration and Automation
Cloud-init
Cloud-init is a multi-distribution package that handles the early initialization of cloud instances.
- Configuration and Automation
Ansible Dynamic Inventory
Generate inventory (host and group information) dynamically rather than statically defining it in a static inventory file