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This section provides a brief overview of Ansible and some of its commands. It also provides setup and configuration details for running Ansible playbooks with PowerMax storage. The information in this section assumes some level of familiarity with Python and Python package installer (pip).
Ansible at its core is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code.
Ansible is deployed as a Python package. As with any Python package, it is installed by using the Python package installer, pip. You can deploy Ansible environments in multiple ways, depending on your needs. This section reviews a few of the most popular deployment approaches.
If you are already familiar with Ansible, you might want to skip some of this information, which might be supplementary to your needs.