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Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

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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

Summary


With this, we come to the end of this rather small but important chapter, which focused on how you can extend Ansible by writing your own custom modules. You learned how to use Python, Bash, and Ruby in order to write your modules. We've also seen how to write integration tests for modules so that they can be integrated into your CI system. In future, hopefully, extending your Ansible functionality using modules should be way easier!

Next, we will step into the world of provisioning, deployment, and orchestration and look at how Ansible solves our infrastructure problems when we provision new instances or want to deploy software updates to various instances in our environments. We promise that the journey is going to be fun!