It allows you to interact with the various types of infrastructure in your environment by using easy-to-understand YAML playbooks.Īnsible provides a great way to detect and correct configuration 'drift' in your environment. Ansible provides an easy way to install applications, provide configuration management, and achieve continuous delivery. In case you have not run across Ansible as an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool, it is a great way to get started automating the infrastructure in your environment.
In this post, we see how the very popular automation and configuration management tool, Ansible, can easily be deployed and run from a Docker container. Using containers to run automation and configuration management tools can provide flexibility in deploying and running these applications.
