Ansible vs Apache Airflow

Ansible is an open-source IT automation platform developed by Red Hat for configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure orchestration. It uses agentless architecture connecting over SSH and describes automation in YAML-based playbooks. Ansible is available as a free community project or as the commercial Ansible Automation Platform from Red Hat.

Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow orchestration platform for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines. Workflows are defined as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in Python, with a web-based UI for monitoring and management. Airflow is widely used for ETL/ELT workflows, ML pipelines, and data engineering tasks.