7 Ansible Use Cases — Management & Automation Examples

Ioannis Moustakis
Spacelift
Published in
7 min readMay 3, 2024

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Ansible is one of the most used tools for automation and managing cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Ansible is the way to go if you are looking for a flexible and powerful tool to automate your infrastructure management, configuration, networking, and deployment tasks.

This post delves into different use cases of Ansible, highlighting its impact on configuration management, CI/CD, cloud provisioning, network automation, security, disaster recovery, and complex workflow orchestration.

If you are new to Ansible, look at these Ansible Guides and Tutorials hosted at Spacelift’s blog.

What is Ansible?

Ansible is an open-source and battle-tested automation tool with simplicity and powerful capabilities. These qualities make it a preferred choice for IT professionals aiming to streamline operations across various domains. It enables cross-platform automation and orchestration at scale and is considered an excellent option for configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and application deployment use cases.

It’s addressed primarily to IT operators, administrators, and decision-makers, helping them achieve operational excellence across their entire infrastructure ecosystem. Its automation opportunities are endless across hybrid…

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Ioannis Moustakis
Spacelift

Sr Solutions Architect at AWS. Talks about Cloud Architecture, DevOps & SRE. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioannis-moustakis/ Opinions expressed are solely my own