Ansible vs Centmin Mod: What are the differences?
Ansible: Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine. Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use; Centmin Mod: A set of open source Linux software. It is a set of open source Linux software which are together form the platform (web stack) where a web site's files (text, CSS files, javascript, web fonts, videos and images) and data can be served to a visitor.
Ansible and Centmin Mod can be categorized as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.
Some of the features offered by Ansible are:
- Ansible's natural automation language allows sysadmins, developers, and IT managers to complete automation projects in hours, not weeks.
- Ansible uses SSH by default instead of requiring agents everywhere. Avoid extra open ports, improve security, eliminate "managing the management", and reclaim CPU cycles.
- Ansible automates app deployment, configuration management, workflow orchestration, and even cloud provisioning all from one system.
On the other hand, Centmin Mod provides the following key features:
- Free SSL certificates via Letsencrypt
- Nginx Brotli Compression
- KernelCare integration
Ansible and Centmin Mod are both open source tools. Ansible with 39.3K GitHub stars and 16.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Centmin Mod with 411 GitHub stars and 120 GitHub forks.
