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When it comes to Ansible, you have to mention its author, Michael DeHaan, the founder of tools such as Cobbler and Ansible.

![Michael DeHaan](images/Michael_DeHaan01.jpg)

|Time period|Company|Post|
|---|---|---|
|2013-03 ~ |AnsibleWorks open source company|CTO|
|2011-06 ~ 2012-11|Rpath, founded in 2005, was closed on May 1, 2013.|Senior Engineer|
|2010-02 ~ 2010-07|Puppet|Product Manager|
|2006-03 ~ 2009-10|Red Hat|Senior Software Engineer|

The earliest first version was 0.0.1, released on March 9, 2012. on October 17, 2015, AnsibleWorks was acquired by Red Hat for $150 million.

Ansible centralizes and automates administration tasks. It is:

* **agentless** (it does not require specific deployments on clients),
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* automation,
* orchestration (when more than 1 target is in use).

!!! Note
Ansible was originally written by Michael DeHaan, the founder of other tools such as Cobbler.

![Michael DeHaan](images/Michael_DeHaan01.jpg)

The earliest first version was 0.0.1, released on March 9, 2012.

On October 17, 2015, AnsibleWorks (the company behind Ansible) was acquired by Red Hat for $150 million.

![The features of Ansible](images/ansible-001.png)

To offer a graphical interface to your daily use of Ansible, you can install some tools like Ansible Tower (RedHat), which is not free, its opensource counterpart Awx, or other projects like Jenkins and the excellent Rundeck can also be used.
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