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Configuration management tools and automation ecosystems: Ansible, Puppet, and Chef

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Configuration management tools and automation ecosystems: Ansible, Puppet, and Chef

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Explain the purpose of configuration management tools in automating provisioning, configuration consistency, and change control across multiple devices.
Differentiate Ansible, Puppet, and Chef at a high level as automation and configuration management ecosystems used to define and apply desired state.

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Identify Ansible as an agentless automation tool commonly using playbooks to orchestrate tasks across infrastructure.

Recognize Puppet and Chef as configuration management platforms that support desired-state management through centralized definitions and automated enforcement.

Evaluate when configuration management tools are preferable to manual CLI administration for repetitive, large-scale, or compliance-driven operational tasks.

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