<h2>Design Goals<aclass="headerlink"href="#design-goals"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<h2>Features<aclass="headerlink"href="#features"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ulclass="simple">
<li>Dead simple setup</li>
<li>Super fast & parallel by default</li>
<li>No server or client daemons; use existing SSHd out of the box</li>
<li>No additional software required on client boxes</li>
<li>Can be easily run from a checkout, no installation required</li>
<li>Modules are idempotent</li>
<li>Modules are idempotent, but you can also easily use shell commands</li>
<li>Modules can be written in ANY language</li>
<li>Awesome API for creating very powerful distributed scripts</li>
<li>Does not have to run remote steps as root</li>
<li>Create the easiest config management system to use, ever.</li>
<li>Pluggable transports (SSH is just the default)</li>
<li>Source host info & variables from files or external software</li>
<li>The easiest config management system to use, ever.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>About the Author<aclass="headerlink"href="#about-the-author"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Ansible was originally developed by <aclass="reference external"href="http://michaeldehaan.net">Michael DeHaan</a> (<aclass="reference external"href="http://twitter.com/#!/laserllama">@laserllama</a>), a Raleigh, NC
based software developer and architect. He created other popular
DevOps programs such as <aclass="reference external"href="http://cobbler.github.com/">Cobbler</a>, the popular Linux install server.
based software developer and architect. He created the popular
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