Configuration Management with Ansible
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Summary: Configuration management is the job Ansible was built for, and the comparison with Chef, Puppet and Salt still decides tool choices. Agentless over SSH means nothing to install on targets, and push-based execution gives you control of when changes land at the cost of continuous enforcement. The readable YAML surface matters more than expressiveness.
Who should read it: teams picking a configuration management tool, and Ansible users who want the architectural context behind the commands.