Re: Best tool to automate softwares/tools installation/configuration on a ready virtual machine

Red Hat is a fully owned subsidiary of IBM:

https://www.redhat.com/en/ibm

That means that every Red Hat product is also an IBM product. So, Ansible is an IBM product. The veracity of that statement, of course, depends on what the meaning of "is" is. The verb "to be", of which "is" is  just a form, is central to the English language. So the famous Clinton's sophism can be reformulated as "to be or not to be, that is the question now". However, links from Red Hat to Clinton to Shakespeare are not quite the topic here so I will cease and desist. You don't have to thank me.

Also, there is another competitor in the race called "chef", which I have also encountered in the field. Chef is a more of a commercial product than Puppet or Ansible. Here is an article, admittedly  not a very good one, which explains some of the differences between those products:

https://www.veritis.com/blog/chef-vs-puppet-vs-ansible-comparison-of-devops-management-tools/

I like Ansible because it doesn't require any agents. The configuration files are JSON and Ansible is wildly popular. There are many YT training clips which will get you started in no time at all.

On 7/28/21 11:53 AM, Bobby Curtis wrote:
> Ansible is a RedHat product, not IBM.  Puppet is used for a much
> bigger implementations and orchestration along side Jenkins (what I’ve
> seen mostly).

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