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Learning Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition

By : Fabio Alessandro Locati
Book Image

Learning Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition

By: Fabio Alessandro Locati

Overview of this book

Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With the release of Ansible 2.7, even complex tasks can be handled much more easily than before. Learning Ansible 2.7 will help you take your first steps toward understanding the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible by introducing you to topics such as playbooks, modules, and the installation of Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), and Windows support. In addition to this, you will focus on various testing strategies, deployment, and orchestration to build on your knowledge. The book will then help you get accustomed to features including cleaner architecture, task blocks, and playbook parsing, which can help you to streamline automation processes. Next, you will learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) before gaining insights into the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy. This will help you to use Ansible to interact with different operating systems and improve your working efficiency. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the Ansible skills you need to automate complex tasks for your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible
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Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment
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Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible
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Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible

AWX users and permissions

First of all, if you remember the first time you opened AWX, you will remember that you had to input a username and password.

As you can surely imagine, those were default credentials, but you can create all of the users that your organization needs.

To do so, you can go to the Users section in the left-hand side menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

As you might expect, the admin user is present, and it is the only present user.

We can create other users by clicking the green button with the + symbol on it.

When we create a new user, the following fields are requested:

  • First name: This is the user's first name.
  • Last name: The user's last name.
  • Organization: The organization that the user belongs to (we will speak more about this later in this chapter).
  • Email: This is the user's email.
  • Username: This is the user's username...