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Ansible Vs Docker Vs Kubernetes

This document compares three popular DevOps tools: Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes. It describes each tool and highlights some key differences. Ansible is an IT automation tool that allows for faster application deployments and frees up DevOps teams for more strategic work. Docker is a container platform that enables building and running applications securely on premises or in the cloud. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. While all three help with DevOps processes like automation and orchestration, they differ in aspects like programming languages, setup complexity, and support for Windows.

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Ansible Vs Docker Vs Kubernetes

This document compares three popular DevOps tools: Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes. It describes each tool and highlights some key differences. Ansible is an IT automation tool that allows for faster application deployments and frees up DevOps teams for more strategic work. Docker is a container platform that enables building and running applications securely on premises or in the cloud. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. While all three help with DevOps processes like automation and orchestration, they differ in aspects like programming languages, setup complexity, and support for Windows.

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Ansible vs Docker vs Kubernetes: Which DevOps Tool is the Best?

Understanding DevOps and key differences between Ansible, Docker


and Kubernetes
DevOps is the most common buzzword in the world of organizational data culture and
software development. It is an operational culture that aims at continuous development
and integration, and rapid IT service delivery by promoting better communication and
improved collaboration between developers and operators. DevOps also seeks to make
deployments easier and increases transparency between developers and operators. It also
encourages infrastructure as code. The recent emergence of companies shifting to adopt
DevOps rose proportionately with the rise of Cloud computing and virtual platforms due to
COVID-19. While it helps to obscure the existing boundaries in the organization framework,
there are many ways DevOps is proving to be resourceful. For instance, it aids in automation
and monitoring of the process of software creation, which spans from integration, testing,
releasing to deploying, and managing it. Further, it facilitates reducing the number of
development cycles while streamlining the development and release pipeline. Currently,
there are many DevOps tools (e.g., Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes) one can use for the tasks
mentioned above.

What are they?

Ansible: It is an open-source, IT automation engine system. This server and configuration


management tool, which is supported by Red Hat, makes IT automation simple as it ends
repetitive tasks and enables faster application deployments, thus allows DevOps teams to
perform more strategic work. It automates configuration management, orchestration,
application deployment, cloud provisioning, and a number of other IT requirements. It
further allows users to control multi-tier complex deployment and security management.
Companies like Tokopedia, Revolut, Trivago use Ansible.

Docker: It is a software container technology platform that enables its users to create,
deploy, run, and manage applications within the containers. Its modular design enables
users to build applications securely, both on-premises and in the cloud. Additionally, it uses
a number of the Linux kernel’s features such as namespaces, cgroups, AppArmor profiles,
and more, to sandbox processes into existing configurable virtual environments. Also, due
to the least compatibility issues, applications can run wherever one wants without causing
compatibility hurdles. Companies like Twitter, Spotify, Pinterest, PayPal, Vox media use
Docker.

Kubernetes: It is an open-source system that provides mechanisms to deploy, maintain, and


scale containerized applications with automation. Designed by Google and is currently
supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This multi-layered tool
implements the Infrastructure as Code principle of DevOps, which allows independent
management of each infrastructure layer, i.e., from a single container to pods, nodes,
namespaces, and clusters, along with networking and physical hosts. It fulfills customers’
demands by deploying applications predictably and quickly, scaling them, launching new
features, and limiting hardware usage to only the needed resources. Companies like Google,
StackShare, Slack use Kubernetes.

Key Differences

While Ansible uses Python while Docker and Kubernetes run on Go Programming. Ansible
also easy to use and effective for configuration management, and Docker is easy to
understand and isolate. However, Kubernetes requires well-planned efforts when it comes
to defining nodes and manual installation. Ansible needs to have to run the installation and
configuration programs to the servers one-by-one. This tool just manages to automate
installation and configuration to all the servers. But for Kubernetes, one has to configure
security and multi-host networking; attach storage; and enable monitoring, auditing, and
logging. Plus, it does not have a default high availability (HA) mode.

Ansible is an excellent useful tool for front-end developers, particularly in situations where
some programming is required. Kubernetes is best suited to developing larger apps, and
Docker has multi-components. Kubernetes support for Windows server is under the beta
phase, whereas Docker has official support for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and
1709. Out of all three, Kubernetes has an excellent load balancing concept. And for Ansible,
one still needs a Linux control machine to manage Windows hosts.

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