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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)

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we will be installing Ansible, so you will need a machine capable of running it. I will go into more details about these requirements in the next part of the chapter. We will also be using Vagrant to launch a virtual machine locally. There is a section that walks through installing Vagrant as well as downloading a CentOS 7 Vagrant box, which is around 400 MB.

You can find complete versions of all of the playbooks in the GitHub repository that accompanies this book at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Ansible/tree/master/Chapter02.

You can also find the code bundle in author's repository: https://github.com/russmckendrick/learn-ansible-fundamentals-of-ansible-2x.