This how-to shows how to use free Ansible software to automate configuration of Cisco routers and links to other Ansible modules that apply to other vendors' gear and support other functionality ...

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DevOps: What is it, and how can it help your business? Inspired by the world of just-in-time manufacturing and widely practised in 'greenfield' IT organisations such as web-scale businesses and ...

If there were an award for “most improved IT orchestration and configuration management tool,” Red Hat’s Ansible would be a top contender. Since its initial development by Michael DeHaan in 2012, it ...

Finally, an automation framework that thinks like a sysadmin. Ansible, you're hired. In my last article, I described how to configure your server and clients so you could connect to each client from ...

Infrastructure is configured declaratively ('infrastructure as code'), which, especially in combination with the management of configuration files in git repositories, enables very reliable deployment ...