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Learn Ansible

By : Russ McKendrick
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Learn Ansible

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Ansible has grown from a small, open source orchestration tool to a full-blown orchestration and configuration management tool owned by Red Hat. Its powerful core modules cover a wide range of infrastructures, including on-premises systems and public clouds, operating systems, devices, and services—meaning it can be used to manage pretty much your entire end-to-end environment. Trends and surveys say that Ansible is the first choice of tool among system administrators as it is so easy to use. This end-to-end, practical guide will take you on a learning curve from beginner to pro. You'll start by installing and configuring the Ansible to perform various automation tasks. Then, we'll dive deep into the various facets of infrastructure, such as cloud, compute and network infrastructure along with security. By the end of this book, you'll have an end-to-end understanding of Ansible and how you can apply it to your own environments.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

The VMware modules

As already mentioned, there are around 30 products in the VMware range; these cover everything from hypervisors to virtual switches, virtual storage, and several interfaces for interacting with your VMware-based hosts and virtual machines. In this section, we will cover the core modules that ship with Ansible to manage all aspects of your VMware estate.

I have tried to split them into logical groups and, for each of the groups, will give a brief explanation of the product the modules are targeting.

Requirements

The modules all have one thing in common: they all require a Python module called PyVmomi to be installed. To install this, run the following pip command:

$ sudo pip install PyVmomi

This module contains...