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Ansible

Configuration and server automation, agentless.

CLIOpen source

Automation tool that configures servers and deploys applications with YAML playbooks, without installing agents on machines.

When to use

To configure servers and automate repetitive operations tasks, over SSH.

When to avoid

To provision cloud infrastructure from scratch; Terraform is more suitable.

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