What kind of architecture does Ansible use to manage remote nodes?

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Agentless — it connects to nodes over SSH with no agent installed on them — Ansible is agentless: the control node connects over SSH and runs modules, so nothing is installed on managed nodes. It's not agent-based like Puppet/Chef, not master-minion polling like Salt, and not peer-to-peer gossip.

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Agent-based — a daemon must be installed and running on every managed node

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Master-minion — nodes poll a central master server for their configuration

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Peer-to-peer — nodes gossip their state to one another in order to converge

What kind of architecture does Ansible use to manage remote nodes?

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