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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

By : Jonathan McAllister
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Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

By: Jonathan McAllister

Overview of this book

Thinking about adapting the DevOps culture for your organization using a very simple, yet powerful automation tool, Ansible 2? Then this book is for you! In this book, you will start with the role of Ansible in the DevOps module, which covers fundamental DevOps practices and how Ansible is leveraged by DevOps organizations to implement consistent and simplified configuration management and deployment. You will then move on to the next module, Ansible with DevOps, where you will understand Ansible fundamentals and how Ansible Playbooks can be used for simple configuration management and deployment tasks. After simpler tasks, you will move on to the third module, Ansible Syntax and Playbook Development, where you will learn advanced configuration management implementations, and use Ansible Vault to secure top-secret information in your organization. In this module, you will also learn about popular DevOps tools and the support that Ansible provides for them (MYSQL, NGINX, APACHE and so on). The last module, Scaling Ansible for the enterprise, is where you will integrate Ansible with CI and CD solutions and provision Docker containers using Ansible. By the end of the book you will have learned to use Ansible to leverage your DevOps tasks.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Ansible Galaxy Fundamentals


In this section, we are going to take a look at the Ansible Galaxy. We are going to explore what Ansible Galaxy is and how it works. To begin, let's define what Ansible Galaxy is. Ansible Galaxy is a website supported by a command-line interface, which provides an area for role and playbook developers to share and consume their creations. Each entry point into Ansible Galaxy is available independently and allows the community to leverage it as they see fit.

The Ansible Galaxy website

The Ansible Galaxy website is an Ansible-owned and community-supported role and playbook sharing solution. The Ansible Galaxy website hosts thousands of community-created roles and playbooks. The developers of these roles have created them in order to allow others to benefit from their efforts and leverage them to perform automated deployment and configuration management tasks.

At this point, it's a good idea to take a look at the Ansible Galaxy website. The Ansible Galaxy website and...