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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

By : Jonathan McAllister
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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

By: Jonathan McAllister

Overview of this book

Thinking about adapting the DevOps culture for your organization using a very simple, yet powerful automation tool, Ansible 2? Then this book is for you! In this book, you will start with the role of Ansible in the DevOps module, which covers fundamental DevOps practices and how Ansible is leveraged by DevOps organizations to implement consistent and simplified configuration management and deployment. You will then move on to the next module, Ansible with DevOps, where you will understand Ansible fundamentals and how Ansible Playbooks can be used for simple configuration management and deployment tasks. After simpler tasks, you will move on to the third module, Ansible Syntax and Playbook Development, where you will learn advanced configuration management implementations, and use Ansible Vault to secure top-secret information in your organization. In this module, you will also learn about popular DevOps tools and the support that Ansible provides for them (MYSQL, NGINX, APACHE and so on). The last module, Scaling Ansible for the enterprise, is where you will integrate Ansible with CI and CD solutions and provision Docker containers using Ansible. By the end of the book you will have learned to use Ansible to leverage your DevOps tasks.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this final chapter, we took a look at how to use Ansible Galaxy. Ansible Galaxy is a really useful solution in sharing and communicating Ansible roles. This solution can take a lot of the guess work out of Ansible. Generally, there is a saying within the Ansible Galaxy community: "There's a galaxy role for that", and indeed, there probably is.

As we wrap up our journey through DevOps and Ansible, it's important to remember that implementing DevOps can be a tough challenge for any organization. There are a lot of people who will need to work in concert to develop a unified process, a set of rigid standards while maintaining a flexible atmosphere that technology demands.

In your quest to implement DevOps with Ansible 2, Ansible provides a much-needed automation platform and glue within an organization that can be leveraged as a foundational point for future DevOps-oriented improvements. It is my hope as the author of this book that the knowledge contained within proves to be useful...