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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)

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we are going to be launching two Vagrant boxes so you will need Vagrant installed and access to the internet; the boxes themselves are around a 300 to 500 MB download each.

You will need to make a copy of the lemp folder from the last chapter and call it lemp-multi if you are going to follow along, adapting the roles as we work through them. If you are not following along, you can find a complete version of lemp-multi at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Ansible/tree/master/Chapter06/lemp-multi.