Book Image

Mastering Ansible. - Third Edition

By : James Freeman, Jesse Keating
Book Image

Mastering Ansible. - Third Edition

By: James Freeman, Jesse Keating

Overview of this book

Automation is essential for success in the modern world of DevOps. Ansible provides a simple, yet powerful, automation engine for tackling complex automation challenges. This book will take you on a journey that will help you exploit the latest version's advanced features to help you increase efficiency and accomplish complex orchestrations. This book will help you understand how Ansible 2.7 works at a fundamental level and will also teach you to leverage its advanced capabilities. Throughout this book, you will learn how to encrypt Ansible content at rest and decrypt data at runtime. Next, this book will act as an ideal resource to help you master the advanced features and capabilities required to tackle complex automation challenges. Later, it will walk you through workflows, use cases, orchestrations, troubleshooting, and Ansible extensions. Lastly, you will examine and debug Ansible operations, helping you to understand and resolve issues. By the end of the book, you will be able to unlock the true power of the Ansible automation engine and tackle complex, real- world actions with ease.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals
6
Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks
12
Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible

Ansible and Windows - Not Just for Linux

A great deal of the work on Ansible has been performed on Linux OSes; indeed, the previous two editions of this book were based entirely around the use of Ansible in a Linux-centric environment. However, most environments are not like that, and, at the very least, are liable to have at least some Microsoft Windows server and desktop machines. Since the second edition of this book was published, a lot of work has gone into Ansible to create a really robust cross-platform automation tool that is equally at home in both a Linux data center and a Windows data center. There are fundamental differences in the way Windows and Linux hosts operate, of course, and so it should come as no surprise that there are some fundamental differences between the way in which Ansible automates tasks on Linux, and how it automates tasks on Windows. We will cover...