Ansible vs GNU Make

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.

GNU Make is a developer-utilities tool that build automation tool that uses makefiles to define dependency-based build rules and tasks. It is open source software.