Ansible
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 Ansible is a radically simple configuration-management, deployment, task-execution, and
 multinode orchestration framework.

 Read the documentation and more at http://ansibleworks.com/

 Many users run straight from the development branch (it's generally fine to do so), but you might also wish to consume a release.  You can find 

 instructions on http://ansibleworks.com/docs/gettingstarted.html for a variety of platforms.  If you want a tarball of the last release, go to 
 http://ansibleworks.com/releases/ and you can also install with pip (though that will bring in some optional binary dependencies you normally do not need).

 Design Principles
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    * Dead simple setup
    * Super fast & parallel by default
    * No server or client daemons; use existing SSHd
    * No additional software required on client boxes
    * Modules can be written in ANY language
    * Awesome API for creating very powerful distributed scripts
    * Be usable as non-root

    * The easiest config management system to use, ever.

 Get Involved

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    * [ansible-project mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/ansible-project), rss: [here](https://groups.google.com/group/ansible-project/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml?num=50&pli=1)

    * irc.freenode.net: #ansible

 Branch Info
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    * Releases are named after Van Halen songs.

    * The devel branch corresponds to the release actively under development.

    * Various release-X.Y branches exist for previous releases

    * We'd love to have your contributions, read "CONTRIBUTING.md" for process notes.

 Author
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 Michael DeHaan -- michael@ansibleworks.com

 [AnsibleWorks](http://ansibleworks.com)