Since version 2.1, we have seen many new modules for the management of networking devices and softwares. Many of those modules have been contributed directly from the company that creates the device (or software). The big advantage of this, which is based on the idea of Software Defined Networking (SDN), is that having Ansible that manages all your networking infrastructure allows you to have an entire datacenter completely managed within Ansible. This means, having a single language for all components and all people within your IT, and this will allow people to understand better how the company IT works as well as working more closely with each other.
Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition
Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition
Overview of this book
Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With Ansible, even complex tasks can be handled easier than before.
In this book, you will learn about the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible 2 by diving deeply into topics such as installation (Linux, BSD, and Windows Support), playbooks, modules, various testing strategies, provisioning, deployment, and orchestration. In this book, you will get accustomed with the new features of Ansible 2 such as cleaner architecture, task blocks, playbook parsing, new execution strategy plugins, and modules. You will also learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as AWS. The book ends with the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy, where you will learn to interact Ansible with different OSes to speed up your work to previously unseen levels
By the end of the book, you’ll able to leverage the Ansible parameters to create expeditious tasks for your organization by implementing the Ansible 2 techniques and paradigms.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Ansible 2 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with Ansible
Automating Simple Tasks
Scaling to Multiple Hosts
Handling Complex Deployment
Getting Notifications from Ansible
Creating a Custom Module
Debugging and Error Handling
Complex Environments
Introducing Ansible for Enterprises
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