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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

By : Jonathan McAllister
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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

By: Jonathan McAllister

Overview of this book

Thinking about adapting the DevOps culture for your organization using a very simple, yet powerful automation tool, Ansible 2? Then this book is for you! In this book, you will start with the role of Ansible in the DevOps module, which covers fundamental DevOps practices and how Ansible is leveraged by DevOps organizations to implement consistent and simplified configuration management and deployment. You will then move on to the next module, Ansible with DevOps, where you will understand Ansible fundamentals and how Ansible Playbooks can be used for simple configuration management and deployment tasks. After simpler tasks, you will move on to the third module, Ansible Syntax and Playbook Development, where you will learn advanced configuration management implementations, and use Ansible Vault to secure top-secret information in your organization. In this module, you will also learn about popular DevOps tools and the support that Ansible provides for them (MYSQL, NGINX, APACHE and so on). The last module, Scaling Ansible for the enterprise, is where you will integrate Ansible with CI and CD solutions and provision Docker containers using Ansible. By the end of the book you will have learned to use Ansible to leverage your DevOps tasks.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 10. Ansible and Docker

Ansible's realm of DevOps integrations is not limited to CI solutions or Configuration Management provisioning implementations. In addition to these, its integration with cloud infrastructure and virtualization-oriented solutions is considered second to none by industry experts. Virtualization solutions such as Docker and Vagrant have taken the cloud computing industry by storm. As such, the integration between Configuration Management tools (including Ansible) has become increasingly robust.

In this chapter, we will take a deep dive into the relationship that can be forged between Docker and Ansible. We will discover how Ansible can be used to create, maintain, and deploy Docker images. We will take a look at how Ansible's module solution for Docker can help automate the delivery of software applications. We will discover commonly popular ways to integrate Ansible with this modern virtualization solution and learn how experts in the industry are combining these...