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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 chapter, we discovered a number of new techniques of developing and managing playbook's. We learned how to leverage includes to modularize our playbook structures and provide us with a level of reusability within our implementations. We learned how to implement conditional logic within our playbook's. We found out how to deal with iterators and loops. We discovered how to implement roles in Ansible and how we can use this structure to organize and better manage complex configuration management and automation tasks. We learned how to best organize our playbook's for reusability. We learned how handlers and registers work and discovered ways we can make our automation solutions more fault tolerant, and we discussed how to effectively enforce basic configuration management implementations.

This information represents the basic cursory information you will need to become a successful Ansible developer and pave the way for success in configuration management. To assist you on your...