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Learn Ansible

Learn Ansible - Second Edition

By : Russ McKendrick
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Learn Ansible

Learn Ansible

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By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Are you tired of manually deploying and managing your infrastructure and looking for ways to streamline your deployments, introduce consistency and collaboration, and save time? If so, then Learn Ansible is for you. Written by a DevOps practitioner and system administrator with 30+ years of experience, this book will teach you how to automate repetitive tasks and effortlessly manage several resources from a single code base. From installing Ansible and writing your first playbook to deploying multi-tier applications across different cloud platforms, this book will take you on an exciting learning journey. By learning the art of defining highly available cloud infrastructure using code, you’ll find it easy to distribute configurations alongside your application. You’ll explore Ansible Galaxy, learn about community-contributed Ansible roles, and discover how to create and share your own roles. Later, the book delves into the capabilities of Ansible AWX and integrating Ansible with your CI/CD pipelines, using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. With real-world examples and hands-on tutorials, you’ll build a solid foundation to tackle any automation project. By the end of this book, you'll be able to confidently implement Ansible in your environment and day-to-day workflows, taking your deployments to the next level.
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Part 1: Introducing, Installing, and Running Ansible
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Part 2: Deploying Applications
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Part 3: Network and Cloud Automation
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Part 4: Ansible Workflows

An introduction to AWS

AWS has been around since 2002; it started by offering a few services that were not linked in any way. It progressed in this form until early 2006 when it was relaunched. The relaunched AWS brought together three services:

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): This is the AWS compute service
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): Amazon’s scalable object storage service
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS): This service provides a message queue, primarily for web applications

Since 2006, it has grown from three unique services to over 160, covering over 15 primary areas such as the following:

  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Database
  • Networking and content delivery
  • Machine learning analytics security, identity, and compliance
  • Internet of things

At its earnings call in October 2023, it was revealed that AWS had USD 23.06 billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2023, good for a service that initially...

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