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Configuration management with Ansible

Configuration management with Ansible

From the course: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) v1.1 (200-301) Cert Prep

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Configuration management with Ansible

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(bouncy music) - [Instructor] Some configuration management tools out there today like Puppet and Chef, they usually have to have agent software installed on the devices being managed. However, an agentless configuration management tool is Ansible, and Ansible uses something called a playbook. That's going to be our configuration instructions. And the configuration instructions are written in a format called YAML, Y-A-M-L, and that literally stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language. And using that YAML format, that's how we're going to write our configuration instructions, and then we're going to have an inventory. And an inventory is a list of devices to which we're going to apply our configuration. What we do is take that playbook and run it against our inventory. And again, the big distinction between Ansible and tools like Puppet and Chef is that with Ansible, there's no agent that's required to be installed on the devices that we're configuring. Now, let's take a look at what this…

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