Ansible is a combination of multiple pieces working together to become an automation tool. Mainly these are modules, playbooks, and plugins.
- Modules are small codes that will get executed. There are multiple inbuilt modules that serve as a starting point for building tasks.
- Playbooks contain plays which further is a group of tasks. This is the place to define the workflow or the steps needed to complete a process
- Plugins are special kinds of modules that run on the main control machine for logging purposes. There are other types of plugins also.
The playbooks ran via an Ansible automation engine. These playbooks contain modules that are basically actions that run in host machines. The mechanism is followed here is the push mechanism, so ansible pushes small programs to these host machines which are written to be resource models of the desired state of the system.
