Docker

What is Ansible? Ansible is an open-source IT automation tool that allows for automated management of remote systems. A basic Ansible environment has the following three components: Control Node: This is a system on which Ansible is installed, and the system from which Ansible commands such as ansible-inventory are issued. This is also where Ansible playbooks and configuration files are stored. Managed node: This is a remote system that Ansible intends to manage and configure. ...

Containers Containers are environments that are intended to be lightweight and standalone software, with isolation from the host machine, which ensures that containers work uniformly across different staging and development instances. Containers share the host OS’s kernel and do not require an OS per application, which is a key difference between containers and virtual machines, which otherwise share a lot of similarities. A very basic overview of container architecture. ...