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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

Exploring Checkov

Checkov is an open source static code analysis tool maintained by Prisma Cloud designed for infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

It helps developers and DevOps teams identify misconfigurations in their files before deployment to cloud environments. By scanning the code for tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and others, including Ansible, Checkov checks against best practices and compliance guidelines, ensuring your infrastructure deployments are secure, efficient, and compliant with industry standards before it is deployed.

Important note

You may have noticed that Ansible is mentioned as “others” in the preceding description; that is because support for Ansible was only just introduced at the time of writing this in early 2024. Because of this, while we will be looking at Checkov during this chapter, we will not be going into as much detail about Checkov or the second tool, Kics.

Before we run our scan, we need a playbook; open...

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