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Learning Ansible

By : Madhurranjan Mohaan, Ramesh Raithatha
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Learning Ansible

By: Madhurranjan Mohaan, Ramesh Raithatha

Overview of this book

<p>Automation includes provisioning new servers, making sure the servers adhere to their role and maintain the desired state from a configuration perspective, and orchestrating various actions across environments and deploying code as expected to all these servers. This is where Ansible steps in. It is secure, highly reliable, and minimalistic in nature. It automates configuration management, application deployment, and many other IT needs.</p> <p>Learning Ansible will equip you with the necessary skills to automate/improve your infrastructure from a configuration management perspective. You will also be able to use Ansible for one-click deployments, provisioning, and orchestrating your infrastructure.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Ansible
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Authors

Madhurranjan Mohaan is a passionate engineer who loves solving problems. He has more than 8 years of experience in the software industry. He worked as a network consultant with Cisco before starting his DevOps journey in 2011 at ThoughtWorks, where he learned the nuances of DevOps and worked on all aspects from Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery. He is currently working at Apigee, where he enjoys dealing with systems at scale.

Madhurranjan has also worked with various tools in configuration management, CI, deployment, and monitoring and logging space, apart from cloud platforms such as AWS. He has been a presenter at events such as DevOpsDays and Rootconf, and loves teaching and singing. He is a first-time author and wishes to share his learning with readers from across the world.

Ramesh Raithatha is a DevOps engineer by profession and a cyclist at heart. He is currently working at Apigee and has worked on various facets of the IT industry, such as configuration management, continuous deployment, automation, and monitoring. He likes exploring stunning natural surroundings on two wheels in his leisure time.