DevOps & Infra IaC mature

Ansible

Agentless IT automation and configuration management

64.0K stars 5.0K contributors Since 2020
Website → GitHub

Agentless IT automation and configuration management

License
GPL-3.0
Min RAM
256 MB
Min CPUs
1 core
Scaling
single_node
Complexity
beginner
Performance
medium
Self-hostable
K8s native
Offline
Pricing
fully free
Docs quality
good
Vendor lock-in
none

Use cases

  • Primary: server-configuration
  • Primary: application-deployment
  • Primary: workflow-orchestration

Anti-patterns / when NOT to use

  • Slow for large inventories
  • YAML can get complex
  • No agent means no continuous enforcement

Replaces / alternatives to

  • Puppet
  • Chef
  • SaltStack

Technical specs

Language
Python
API type
REST
Protocols
HTTP
Deployment
dockerbinary

Community

GitHub stars 64.0K
Contributors 5.0K
Commit frequency weekly
Plugin ecosystem none
Backing Red Hat / IBM
Funding corporate

Release

Latest version
Last release
Since 2020

Best fit

Team size
solosmallmediumenterprise
Industries
general

Tags

  • configuration-management
  • automation
  • orchestration
  • provisioning
  • agentless
  • yaml