IT automation and orchestratio...
Ansible
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Ansible provides open-source automation that reduces complexity and runs everywhere. Using Ansible lets you automate virtually any task, including the following common use cases for Ansible:
- Eliminate repetition and simplify workflows
- Manage and maintain system configuration
- Continuously deploy complex software
- Perform zero-downtime rolling updates
Ansible uses simple, human-readable scripts called playbooks to automate your tasks. You declare the desired state of a local or remote system in your playbook, and Ansible ensures that the system remains in that state.
As automation technology, Ansible is designed around the following principles:
- Agent-less architecture: Enjoy low maintenance overhead by avoiding additional software installation across IT infrastructure.
- Simplicity: Automation playbooks use straightforward YAML syntax for code that reads like documentation. Ansible is also decentralized, using SSH existing OS credentials to access remote machines.
- Scalability and flexibility: Easily and quickly scale the systems you automate through a modular design that supports many operating systems, cloud platforms, and network devices.
- Idempotence and predictability: When the system is in the state described by your playbook, Ansible does not change anything, even if the playbook runs multiple times.
Integrating with provides the following benefits:
- Enhanced security: Integrating provides an extra layer of security by ensuring that cryptographic keys are stored in a hardware device, making it more resistant to software-based attacks.
- Performance boost: We build our HSMs to perform cryptographic operations efficiently, thereby improving the performance of your PKI infrastructure.
- Regulatory compliance: helps meet various regulatory requirements that mandate using hardware to store and manage cryptographic keys.
- Key backup and recovery: has robust backup and recovery options to ensure business continuity.
- Centralized management: Using enables centralized management of cryptographic keys, making administrative tasks easier and more streamlined.
Updated 04 Dec 2024
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