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Learn Ansible - Second Edition
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Learn Ansible
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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.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Preface
Part 1: Introducing, Installing, and Running Ansible
Chapter 1: Installing and Running Ansible
Chapter 2: Exploring Ansible Galaxy
Chapter 3: The Ansible Commands
Part 2: Deploying Applications
Chapter 4: Deploying a LAMP Stack
Chapter 5: Deploying WordPress
Chapter 6: Targeting Multiple Distributions
Chapter 7: Ansible Windows Modules
Part 3: Network and Cloud Automation
Chapter 8: Ansible Network Modules
Chapter 9: Moving to the Cloud
Chapter 10: Building Out a Cloud Network
Chapter 11: Highly Available Cloud Deployments
Chapter 12: Building Out a VMware Deployment
Part 4: Ansible Workflows
Chapter 13: Scanning Your Ansible Playbooks
Chapter 14: Hardening Your Servers Using Ansible
Chapter 15: Using Ansible with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps
Chapter 16: Introducing Ansible AWX and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Chapter 17: Next Steps with Ansible
Index
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