An administrator is utilizing an automation engine than uses SSH to run commands on remote systems. Which of the following does this describe?

An inventory is a structured list of managed hosts and their group assignments used by automation tools, not a description of how the automation connects to remote systems.

An agentless automation engine uses existing protocols such as SSH to communicate with and execute commands on remote systems, meaning no dedicated agent process needs to be installed or maintained on managed nodes. Ansible is the primary example of this pattern, pushing tasks over SSH and running them directly on the remote host. This reduces setup overhead and eliminates the need for agent lifecycle management.

Build automation refers to the scripted compilation, testing, and packaging of software artifacts, not the method by which remote commands are executed.

Version control is a system for tracking and managing changes to files and source code over time, which is unrelated to SSH-based remote execution architecture.