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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 12. Ansible Galaxy

At this point in the book, we should have a pretty solid grasp of DevOps and Ansible and how to effectively implement DevOps patterns and organizational strategies using Ansible 2. From here, we will take a look at community resources provided by Ansible (Ansible Galaxy) and discover how to tap into a wealth of open source community-provided Ansible roles and playbook's.

Ansible's implementation has managed to standardize itself over the years and has become one of the leading DevOps Configuration Management, automation, and delivery solutions in the market. Ansible's success is primarily due to the modularity that is inherent in Ansible, its extensibility, Ansible Tower, and its community-supported Ansible Galaxy solution.

For those unaware of Ansible Galaxy, it is a robust and highly adaptable solution by which community members and playbook developers can create and share Ansible roles. This community-developed sharing solution provides a wealth of automation...