Practical Ansible - Second Edition
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Practical Ansible - Second Edition
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Overview of this book
Ansible empowers you to automate a myriad of tasks, including software provisioning, configuration management, infrastructure deployment, and application rollouts. It can be used as a deployment tool as well as an orchestration tool. While Ansible provides simple yet powerful features to automate multi-layer environments using agentless communication, it can also solve other critical IT challenges, such as ensuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) with zero downtime.
In this book, you'll work with the latest release of Ansible and learn how to solve complex issues quickly with the help of task-oriented scenarios. You'll start by installing and configuring Ansible on Linux and macOS to automate monotonous and repetitive IT tasks and learn concepts such as playbooks, inventories, and roles. As you progress, you'll gain insight into the YAML syntax and learn how to port between Ansible versions. Additionally, you'll understand how Ansible enables you to orchestrate multi-layer environments such as networks, containers, and the cloud.
By the end of this Ansible book, you'll be well versed in writing playbooks and other related Ansible code to overcome all your IT challenges, from infrastructure-as-a-code provisioning to application deployments and handling mundane day-to-day maintenance tasks.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Part 1:Learning the Fundamentals of Ansible
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Ansible
Chapter 2: Understanding the Fundamentals of Ansible
Chapter 3: Defining Your Inventory
Chapter 4: Playbooks and Roles
Part 2:Expanding the Capabilities of Ansible
Chapter 5: Creating and Consuming Modules
Chapter 6: Creating and Consuming Collections
Chapter 7: Creating and Consuming Plugins
Chapter 8: Coding Best Practices
Chapter 9: Advanced Ansible Topics
Part 3:Using Ansible in an Enterprise
Chapter 10: Network Automation with Ansible
Chapter 11: Container and Cloud Management
Chapter 12: Troubleshooting and Testing Strategies
Chapter 13: Getting Started with Ansible Automation Controller
Chapter 14: Execution Environments
Assessments
Index
Customer Reviews