# ansible as an upgrade/migration tool

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-as-an-upgrade-migration-tool/11696>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [July 17, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-as-an-upgrade-migration-tool/11696 "2012-07-17T18:57:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-as-an-upgrade-migration-tool/11696/1 "2012-07-17T18:57:09Z")

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Ansible is for managing a system throughout it’s entire life cycle, not just provisioning – that’s the whole point of the idempotent configuration management resource model.

And yes, that’s why I wrote it, specifically.

–Michael