In this chapter, we are going to be discussing various components of the VMware family of products and how you can interact with them using Ansible. While there is an example playbook in this chapter, it may not be easily transferable to your installation. Because of this, it is not recommended that you use any of the examples in this chapter without first updating them.
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Overview of this book
Ansible has grown from a small, open source orchestration tool to a full-blown orchestration and configuration management tool owned by Red Hat. Its powerful core modules cover a wide range of infrastructures, including on-premises systems and public clouds, operating systems, devices, and services—meaning it can be used to manage pretty much your entire end-to-end environment. Trends and surveys say that Ansible is the first choice of tool among system administrators as it is so easy to use.
This end-to-end, practical guide will take you on a learning curve from beginner to pro. You'll start by installing and configuring the Ansible to perform various automation tasks. Then, we'll dive deep into the various facets of infrastructure, such as cloud, compute and network infrastructure along with security.
By the end of this book, you'll have an end-to-end understanding of Ansible and how you can apply it to your own environments.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
An Introduction to Ansible
Installing and Running Ansible
The Ansible Commands
Deploying a LAMP Stack
Deploying WordPress
Targeting Multiple Distributions
The Core Network Modules
Moving to the Cloud
Building Out a Cloud Network
Highly Available Cloud Deployments
Building Out a VMware Deployment
Ansible Windows Modules
Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible and OpenSCAP
Deploying WPScan and OWASP ZAP
Introducing Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX
Ansible Galaxy
Next Steps with Ansible
Assessments
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Customer Reviews
