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Life before Ansible - Ansible Tutorial
From the course: Learning Ansible
Life before Ansible
- [Illustrator] So that we can better understand just how important Ansible can be in our IT infrastructure, let's talk about a bit about what life was like before Ansible. You see many years ago, the server administrators in a typical IT department were what we call siloed. They were operating somewhat in a vacuum. They were doing all their work based on requests from other teams in the IT department, but there was this real big separation between their day-to-day functions and the functions of different personnel in the IT department. And something that was happening a lot was these server admins were needing to go to systems and manage them by hand, that's right, they would log into the operating system, maybe it was a Windows server operating system, and they would make configuration changes. Then they would go into a Linux box and make configuration changes. And so what quickly happened was server tools started…