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Learning Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition

By : Fabio Alessandro Locati
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Learning Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition

By: Fabio Alessandro Locati

Overview of this book

Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With the release of Ansible 2.7, even complex tasks can be handled much more easily than before. Learning Ansible 2.7 will help you take your first steps toward understanding the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible by introducing you to topics such as playbooks, modules, and the installation of Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), and Windows support. In addition to this, you will focus on various testing strategies, deployment, and orchestration to build on your knowledge. The book will then help you get accustomed to features including cleaner architecture, task blocks, and playbook parsing, which can help you to streamline automation processes. Next, you will learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) before gaining insights into the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy. This will help you to use Ansible to interact with different operating systems and improve your working efficiency. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the Ansible skills you need to automate complex tasks for your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Creating a Web Server Using Ansible
4
Section 2: Deploying Playbooks in a Production Environment
9
Section 3: Deploying an Application with Ansible
13
Section 4: Deploying an Application with Ansible

Ansible Galaxy

Ansible Galaxy is a free website where you can download Ansible roles that have been developed by the community and kick-start your automation within minutes. You can share or review community roles so that others can easily find the most trusted roles on Ansible Galaxy. You can start using Ansible Galaxy by simply signing up with social media applications such as Twitter, Google, and GitHub or by creating a new account on the Ansible Galaxy website at https://galaxy.ansible.com/ and downloading the required roles using the ansible-galaxy command, which ships with Ansible version 1.4.2 and higher.

In case you want to host your own local Ansible Galaxy instance, you can do so by fetching the code from https://github.com/ansible/galaxy.

To download an Ansible role from Ansible Galaxy, use the following command:

ansible-galaxy install username.rolename  

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