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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have taken an in-depth look at Ansible Galaxy, both the website and command-line tool. I am sure that you will agree that Ansible Galaxy offers valuable community services in that it allows Ansible users to share roles for common tasks as well as a way for users to make contributions to the Ansible community by publishing their own roles.

However, just be careful. Remember to check through the code and also read through bug trackers before using roles from Ansible Galaxy in production environments; after all, a lot of these roles need to have escalated privileges in order to be able to successfully execute their tasks.

In the next and final chapter, we are going to be looking at some of the ways Ansible can be integrated into your day-to-day workflows.