Agentless & Push-Based: Ansible's Big Idea
How Ansible drives nodes over plain SSH with no agent.
No Agent Required
Ansible's headline idea is that it is agentless: you do not install any daemon or extra software on the machines you manage.
It Rides on SSH
To reach a Linux node, Ansible just uses plain SSH, the same protocol you already log in with. No new ports, no new service.
All lessons in this course
- The Problem: Snowflake Servers & Manual Drift
- Configuration Management to the Rescue
- Agentless & Push-Based: Ansible's Big Idea
- Ansible vs Puppet, Chef & Terraform