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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 7. Ansible Vault

Modern day encryption solutions have come a long way since the initial concepts of encryption were invented and implemented back in the early days of computer science. Encryption and security are both hotbed topics within modern mainstream news outlets, as notable security breaches have initiated a heightened awareness of security fallacies and there has been an increase in guarding of sensitive data. With applications and customer's sensitive data moving toward the cloud, the necessity for an increased level of control and security is now greater than ever.

Modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions have paved the way for configuration management solutions to be stored within modern source control solutions. Managing and tracking infrastructure changes via a source control solution is highly valuable as it provides the ability for teams to ensure that IaC solutions are tracked through version control, and revisions are notated and backed up. In addition to these...