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The term "ansible" was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World, [4] and refers to fictional instantaneous communication systems.[5] [6]The Ansible tool was developed by Michael DeHaan, the author of the provisioning server application Cobbler and co-author of the Fedora Unified Network Controller (Func) framework for remote administration.
The term ansible refers to a category of fictional technological devices capable of superluminal or faster-than-light communication. These devices can instantaneously transmit and receive messages across obstacles and vast distances, including between star systems and even galaxies.
Mechanisms for installing updates are built into some software systems (or, in the case of some operating systems such as Linux, Android and iOS, into the operating system itself). Automation of these update processes ranges from fully automatic to user-initiated and controlled.
CCA tools include Ansible, Chef software, Otter, Puppet (software), Rudder (software) and SaltStack. [5] Each tool has a different method of interacting with the system some are agent-based, push or pull, through an interactive UI.
Foreman has deep integration to configuration management software, with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt and other solutions through plugins, which allows users to automate repetitive tasks, deploy applications, and manage change to deployed servers.
PowerShell 6.0. Ansible communicates with Windows servers over WinRM using the Python pywinrm package and can remotely run PowerShell scripts and commands. [4]Thycotic's Secret Server also leverages WinRM to enable PowerShell remoting.
Ansible's "roles" are the equivalent of cdist's types. Types can have many components: Object ID: When a type is turned into an object, it is passed a unique object ID. The same type cannot be instantiated twice with the same ID. This ID is not random like a UUID, but rather is some unique identifier that is meaningful in relation to the type.
Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), is the act of making the program ready for execution. Installation refers to the particular configuration of software or hardware with a view to making it usable with the computer. A soft or digital copy of the piece of software (program) is needed to install it.