### Why Ansible? What Sets Ansible Apart?

Ansible has a number of qualities that make it the most rapidly growing automation platform in the world.

What is it about Ansible that makes it worth talking about?

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### Why Ansible? What Sets Ansible Apart?

Ansible is simple. Playbooks are human and machine readable, no special coding skills required – and even people in your IT organization that don’t know Ansible can read an Ansible playbook and understand what’s happening.

This simplicity also means that it’s easy to install and get started to do real work with it quickly – usually in just minutes.

Ansible also works like you think – tasks are always executed in order. All together, the simplicity ensures that you can get started quickly.

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### Why Ansible? What Sets Ansible Apart?

Ansible is powerful. Simplicity is great, but to be really useful, you also need the powerful features that ensure you can model even the most complex of IT workflows.

Ansible is complete automation, able to deploy apps, manage orchestration, and configure the infrastructure, networks, operating systems, and services that you’re already using today.

Together, Ansible’s capabilities allow you to orchestrate the entire application and environment lifecycle, regardless of where It's deployed.

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### Why Ansible? What Sets Ansible Apart?

Ansible is Agentless. Ansible relies on industry-standard and trusted SSH and WinRM protocols to automate. There are no agents or other software to install, and no additional firewall ports to open. With no need to separately stand up a management infrastructure, Ansible further reduces the activation energy required from your team to start automating today.

In a world where IT complexity stymies even the most basic of IT tasks, Ansible provides a much needed respite – and path forward enabling teams to crush productivity-stealing complexity and overhead.

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