ansible@12 ☆

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Description:
Automate deployment, configuration, and upgrading

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 12.3.0@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | @ansible | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Devops

Tags: automation devops configuration-management orchestration infrastructure-as-code

Install: brew install ansible@12

About:
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. It uses an agentless architecture, managing nodes over SSH or PowerShell with no additional software required on remote systems. Its declarative, human-readable playbooks make complex orchestration tasks easy to understand and share.

Key Features:

Agentless architecture requiring no remote daemons
Idempotent operations ensuring consistent system state
Human-readable playbooks written in YAML
Extensive module library for diverse infrastructure
Uses existing SSH or WinRM infrastructure

Use Cases:

Automating server provisioning and configuration across hybrid cloud environments
Orchestrating multi-tier application deployments
Implementing continuous delivery pipelines for infrastructure changes

Alternatives:

Terraform – Terraform is primarily for provisioning infrastructure as code, while Ansible excels at configuration management and orchestration
Puppet – Puppet uses a master-agent model requiring agents on nodes, whereas Ansible is agentless

License: GPL-3.0-or-later

Dependencies: certifi, cryptography, libsodium, libssh, libyaml, python@3.13, tree

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, sonoma, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 10, 2025 4:44am		0	VERSION_BUMP	ba3bb345