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Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition - Fourth Edition

By : James Freeman, Jesse Keating
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Mastering Ansible, 4th Edition - Fourth Edition

By: James Freeman, Jesse Keating

Overview of this book

Ansible is a modern, YAML-based automation tool (built on top of Python, one of the world’s most popular programming languages) with a massive and ever-growing user base. Its popularity and Python underpinnings make it essential learning for all in the DevOps space. This fourth edition of Mastering Ansible provides complete coverage of Ansible automation, from the design and architecture of the tool and basic automation with playbooks to writing and debugging your own Python-based extensions. You'll learn how to build automation workflows with Ansible’s extensive built-in library of collections, modules, and plugins. You'll then look at extending the modules and plugins with Python-based code and even build your own collections — ultimately learning how to give back to the Ansible community. By the end of this Ansible book, you'll be confident in all aspects of Ansible automation, from the fundamentals of playbook design to getting under the hood and extending and adapting Ansible to solve new automation challenges.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Ansible Overview and Fundamentals
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Section 2: Writing and Troubleshooting Ansible Playbooks
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Section 3: Orchestration with Ansible

Technical requirements

To follow the examples presented in this chapter, you will need a Linux machine running Ansible 4.3 or a newer version. Almost any flavor of Linux should do—for those interested in specifics, all the code presented in this chapter was tested on Ubuntu Server 20.04 Long-Term Support (LTS) unless stated otherwise, and on Ansible 4.3. The example code that accompanies this chapter can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Ansible-Fourth-Edition/tree/main/Chapter11.

Check out the following video to see the code in action: https://bit.ly/3lZ6Y9W