Ansible is a an agentless orchestration tool which relies on OpenSSH for transport and YAML for creating playbooks. Playbook is essentially a list of rules which are applied to a (set of) server to put them in desired configuration. We have started using Ansible and are trying to replace current Puppet setup with it. In this talk, I will show how to execute ad hoc commands on one or more servers as well as create simple playbooks. I will talk about how we use it at Fedora project to manage different kinds of servers across different data centers and the way we are using it.
