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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

Now we have come to the end of not only the chapter but also our book. I have been trying to think of a way I can sum up Ansible, and I have managed to find it in a tweet (https://twitter.com/laserllama/status/976135074117808129) from Ansible creator Michael DeHaan, who, in response to a technical recruiter, said the following:

"Anyone using Ansible for a few months is as good as anyone using Ansible for three years. It's a simple tool on purpose."

That perfectly sums up my experience of Ansible and hopefully yours. Once you know the basics, it is very easy to quickly move on and start to build more and more complex playbooks, which can not only assist with deploying basic code and applications, but also with deploying complex cloud and even physical architectures.

Being able to not only reuse your own roles but have access to a large collection of a community...