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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


This was quite a chapter. And we are nearing the halfway point in our journey through this book. In this chapter, we learned the basic constructs of Ansible playbook files, what YAML is, and the basic idea of how Jinja is incorporated as well. In addition to understanding the basic constructs, we learned how to create Ansible playbook YAML files, how to create and manage inventory files, and so much more. This chapter was quite a ride: acquiring knowledge and implementing it.

In the next chapter, we will look at playbook syntax. This includes roles, includes, playbook directory structures, and loops and blocks. Consider the next chapter to be progression from of this chapter. Let's get started on it then, shall we?