What are the different components of ansible? Explain Ansible architecture.

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What are the different components of ansible? Explain Ansible architecture.

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The below diagram depicts the Ansible architecture:
 
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The main component of Ansible is the Ansible automation engine. 
This engine directly interacts with various cloud services, 
Configuration Management Database (CMBD) and different users who write 
various playbooks to execute the Ansible Automation engine.
The Ansible Automation engine consists of the following components:
Inventories: These are a list of nodes containing 
their respective IP addresses, servers, databases, etc. which needs to be managed.
APIs: Just like any other API, the Ansible APIs are used 
for commuting various Cloud services, public or private services.
Modules: The modules are used to manage system resources, packages, 
libraries, files, etc. Ansible modules can be used to automate a 
wide range of tasks. Ansible provides around 450 modules that automate 
nearly every part of your environment.
Plugins: If you want to execute Ansible tasks as a job, 
Ansible Plugins can be used. They simplify the execution of a task
by building a job like an environment that basically contains pieces 
of code corresponding to some specific functionality. 
There are 100s of Plugins provided by Ansible. 
An example is the Action plugin, which acts as front ends 
to modules and can execute tasks on the controller 
before calling the modules themselves.
Networking: Ansible can also be used to automate different networks 
and services. It can do this by creating a playbook or an Ansible role 
that easily spans different network hardware.
Hosts: The Ansible Hosts/ Node systems are machines (Linux, Windows, etc) 
that are getting automated.
Playbooks: Playbooks are simple code files which describe the tasks 
that need to be executed. The Playbooks are written in YAML format. 
They can be used to automate tasks, declare configurations, etc.
CMDB: It is a database that acts as a storehouse for various IT installations. 
It holds data about various IT assets (also known as configuration items (CI))
and describes the relationships between such assets.
Cloud: It is a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet
to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server.
To learn more about Ansible, you can go through this Ansible Tutorial blog.

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