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ansible playbooks.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="IDEMPOTENCE"><a id="_idempotence"></a><h2>IDEMPOTENCE</h2><p>Most modules other than command are idempotent, meaning they will seek to avoid changes
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What inspired Ansible?
----------------------
Back when I worked for Red Hat and working on Cobbler, several of us identified a gap between
Back when I worked for Red Hat and working on `Cobbler <http://cobbler.github.com/>`_, several of us identified a gap between
provisioning (Cobbler) and configuration management solutions (cfengine, Puppet, etc).
There was a need for a way to do ad-hoc tasks efficiently, and various parallel
SSH scripts were not API based enough for us. So we (Adrian Likins, Seth Vidal, and I)
created Func -- a secure distributed command framework.
created `Func <http://fedorahosted.org/func>`_ -- a secure distributed command framework.
I always wanted to have a configuration management system built on Func, but never
built it due to needing to spend time on Cobbler and other projects.
In the meantime, a John Eckersberg developed Taboot,
a deployment framework of sorts that sat on top of Func, using a YAML syntax very
much like what Ansible now has.
much like what Ansible now has in :doc:`playbooks`.
After trying to get Func running again recently at a new company, I got tired
of some SSL and DNS issues and decided to create something a bit simpler, taking
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in any language as long as they return JSON. Ansible's API, of course, is
heavily inspired by Func. Some features, like delegation hierarchies, are
not supported, but Ansible does have an async mode. Ansible also adds
a configuration management and multinode orchestration layer that Func didn't have.
a configuration management and multinode orchestration layer (:doc:`playbooks`)
that Func didn't have.
vs Puppet?
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Getting Started
===============
Downloads & Getting Started
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How to download ansible and get started using it

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* Be very usable as non-root
* Create the easiest config management system to use, ever.
Communicate and Get Involved
````````````````````````````
Mailing List & IRC
```````````````````
Your ideas and contributions are welcome. We're also happy to help
you with questions about Ansible.
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 3
faq
gettingstarted
patterns
examples
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YAMLScripts
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api
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