Chapter 9, Performing Network Automation with Python and Ansible
YAML.
/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg.
/etc/ansible/hosts.
Ad hoc commands and playbooks.
The Ansible architecture is agentless in the sense no software or agent has to be installed on the client to communicate back to the server. Instead of relying on remote host agents, Ansible uses SSH to push its changes to the remote host.
The Ansible command for checking the hostname of IP addresses is as follows: