Meanings
- not comparableWithout an agent.
Ansible is agentless and you do not need to install any kind of agents on the managed nodes.
2022, Gineesh Madapparambath, Ansible for Real-Life Automation, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 71 more example
Maybe it’s not “American Idol,” but two agentless novelists have been plucked from obscurity and were anointed the winners yesterday of “First Chapters,” a writing contest sponsored by Simon & Schuster, the Borders Group and the social media site Gather.com .
2007 May 31, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times
Origin
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