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Ansible Configuration Management

By : Daniel Hall
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Ansible Configuration Management

By: Daniel Hall

Overview of this book

<p>Ansible provides a clear and concise way to manage the configuration of your Linux infrastructure. It can help in making your infrastructure more maintainable, quicker to deploy, and easier to understand. <br /><br />"Ansible Configuration Management" will take you from your very first command all the way to extending the very capabilities of Ansible itself. It takes a practical approach with hands-on examples, which ensures that the readers walk away with all the knowledge and skills they will need to harness Ansible.<br /><br />"Ansible Configuration Management" starts with an explanation of the basics and builds the reader’s knowledge through step-by-step guidelines.<br /><br />The book concentrates on discussions related to realistic worked examples. Using this approach we discuss how to perform ad-hoc actions, script actions together to set up services, and how to script more complicated tasks. The discussion carries onto explanation of organising your configurations for large deployments and warps up with examples of how to extend the capabilities of Ansible.<br /><br />"Ansible Configuration Management" provides the knowledge you require to effectively manage your systems in a simple, quick, and maintainable way.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Niels Dequeker is a frontend developer who's passionate about the Web.

Currently, he's working with the JavaScript Research and Development team at Hippo, a company based in the beautiful city center of Amsterdam. He's responsible for the realization of the Hippo CMS, giving advice to both colleagues and clients about the possibilities and solutions.

Niels has used Ansible in a production environment, for both Server Configuration and Application Deployment.

He is also co-organizer of the JavaScript MVC Meetup in Amsterdam, where people come together monthly to share, inspire, and learn.

Lex Toumbourou has worked in the Information Technology field for over 8 years, in a career centered on System Engineering and Software Development. Though he turned his focus on Ansible recently, Lex has worked with Puppet, Nagios, RRD, Fabric, Django, Postgres, Splunk, Git, the Python ecosystem, the PHP ecosystem, and everything in between. Lex is an avid supporter of DevOps and loves automation and analytics.