# Why use Ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-use-ansible/19865>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [November 26, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-use-ansible/19865 "2015-11-26T15:10:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![fabgcruz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/fabgcruz/32/11002_2.png) [@fabgcruz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/fabgcruz)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-use-ansible/19865/1 "2015-11-26T15:10:55Z")

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Hello!

I'm conducting a search for Differences among other tools and ansible .
 Where can I find the advantages of using the ansible ? My question is :

Why use ansible , he is better than the puppet ?

Tks,

Fabricio

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**Author:** ![Thomas\_Steinbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Thomas\_Steinbach](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Thomas_Steinbach)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-use-ansible/19865/2 "2015-12-02T18:38:26Z")

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Depending on how sophisticated your answer should be, i advice you following great book: [https://valdhaus.co/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-ansible.html](https://valdhaus.co/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-ansible.html)

What I like on Ansible compared to Puppet is:

- no hassle with installing a client or agent on the remote machines. so a playbook normally works out of the box for new clients
- really easy to read provisioning scripts in YAML
- far more easy to learn
- far better and growing Docker support (you can directly deploy configurations into a container)
- last but not least - a very responsive community

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**Author:** ![fabgcruz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/fabgcruz/32/11002_2.png) [@fabgcruz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/fabgcruz)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-use-ansible/19865/3 "2015-12-04T12:15:01Z")

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Hi Thomas !!

Thanks !!