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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 looked at the Ansible module architecture. We talked about how Ansible organizes modules by category (Core and user). Once you learned how Ansible manages modules, we talked about how Ansible modules can be called via two distinct methods (the command line and via playbook tasks). Then, we moved on and looked at a few examples of popular integration modules with Ansible.

In the next chapter, we will move on to look at how to integrate Ansible with popular CICD solutions, such as Jenkins, Git, and more. We will explore how to start making pipelines using Ansible and discover some tricks that will help us encourage the reuse of Ansible playbooks within an organization. Let's get moving, shall we?