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Learn Ansible

By : Russ McKendrick
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Learn Ansible

By: Russ McKendrick

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)

Ansible Galaxy commands

Before we finish this chapter, let's take a quick look at some of the other functionalities of the ansible-galaxy command, starting with logging in.

Logging in

It is possible to log in to Ansible Galaxy from the command line; you can do this by using the following:

$ ansible-galaxy login

This will ask for your GitHub username and password; if you have two-factor authentication enabled on your GitHub account, which you really should do, then this method will not work. Instead, you will need to provide a personal access token. You can generate a personal access token at the following URL: https://github.com/settings/tokens/. Once you have a token, you can use the following command, replacing the...