Ansible is the leading open-source configuration management and orchestration platform: define infrastructure as code via YAML playbooks, execute across thousands of servers without agent installation, and manage full application deployments idempotently. Career path: Practitioner (basic playbooks, $95-125k) тЖТ Engineer (roles, Vault, Galaxy, $125-160k) тЖТ Architect (Tower/AWX, multi-cloud, $160-210k) over 4-6 months. Core concepts: playbooks, inventory, roles, handlers. Compare to Terraform (IaC), Chef/Puppet (agent-based), Kubernetes (orchestration).
Agentless IT automation: configuration management, application deployment, orchestration. Simple YAML-based automation for servers, networks, cloud. Red Hat (IBM) product. Learning Curve: Medium (YAML + systems knowledge)
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| USA | $100k | $140k | $190k |
| UK | ┬г55k | ┬г80k | ┬г115k |
| EU | тВм60k | тВм85k | тВм125k |
| CANADA | C$105k | C$145k | C$200k |
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