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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

By : Sean Sullivan
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Demystifying Ansible Automation Platform

By: Sean Sullivan

Overview of this book

While you can use any automation software to simplify task automation, scaling automation to suit your growing business needs becomes difficult using only a command-line tool. Ansible Automation Platform standardizes how automation is deployed, initiated, delegated, and audited, and this comprehensive guide shows you how you can simplify and scale its management. The book starts by taking you through the ways to get Ansible Automation Platform installed, their pros and cons, and the initial configuration. You’ll learn about each object in the platform, how it interacts with other objects, as well as best practices for defining and managing objects to save time. You’ll see how to maintain the created pieces with infrastructure as code. As you advance, you’ll monitor workflows with CI/CD playbooks and understand how Ansible Automation Platform integrates with many other services such as GitLab and GitHub. By the end of this book, you’ll have worked through real-world examples to make the most of the platform while learning how to manipulate, manage, and deploy any playbook to Ansible Automation Platform.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Ansible Automation Platform Up and Running
6
Part 2: Configuring AAP
13
Part 3: Extending Ansible Tower

Who this book is for

Many people I’ve encountered are familiar with Ansible or are able to get up to speed with Ansible quickly. However, few have taken to the idea of automating their automation. Most have written some playbooks and dabbled with Ansible Tower. Even if you have been using Ansible and parts of AAP for years, you will likely find new knowledge in this book.

If you are interested in diving into the nuances and stepping up to an intermediate-to-expert level in your understanding of Ansible Tower and AAP to integrate them into your infrastructure, then this book is for you.

In addition, there are multiple ways of interacting with the platform, including manually interacting with the web interface and using Ansible modules and roles to configure different parts of the platform. These roles can be used to implement Configuration as Code (CaC).