You must be wondering why the chapter is named the way it is. The reason for this is so far, we've not yet reached a stage where you can deploy the playbooks in production, especially in complex situations. Complex situations include those where you have to interact with several (hundred or thousand) machines where each group of machines is dependent on another group or groups of machines. These groups may be dependent on each other for all or some transactions, to perform secure complex data backups and replications with master and slaves. In addition, there are several interesting and rather compelling features of Ansible that we've not yet looked at. In this chapter, we will cover all of them with examples. Our aim is that, by the end of this chapter, you should have a clear idea of how to write playbooks that can be deployed in production from a configuration management perspective. The following chapters will add to what we've learned to enhance...
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.
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Ansible 2 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
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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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