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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

Summary


So far, we have taken a brief ride into what the world of DevOps entails, where it came from, the core principles that make it revolutionary, and its grand rethinking of the processes behind the planning, development, testing, and release of stable software in today's fast-paced world. We also briefly touched on what role Ansible plays in the grand scheme of it all and what makes it so capable of being an important, if not vital, tool in the modern developer's toolkit.

Next, we get into the meat and potatoes of what this book is truly about, which is the software itself. We will learn about it all, from the initial installation of the software on the platform of your choice to ensuring that Ansible is configured properly to talk and interact with various parts of the installed environment so that it can successfully perform its tasks, using the command line of Ansible to navigate the overall setup; and even exploring what core modules are installed as standard, what they do, and where...