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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

Integrating Ansible with Vagrant


In this section, we will talk about integrating Ansible with Vagrant. Vagrant is a freely available infrastructure virtualization solution that is currently in use by countless organizations. It is provided free of charge via the kind folks at HashiCorp. A complete documentation for Vagrant can be found at https://www.vagrantup.com/intro/index.html.

To begin, we will assume you already have Vagrant up and running. If not, refer to the instructions located within HashiCorp's Vagrant Up website at https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/cli/up.html to get the initial setup completed. Once the initial setup of Vagrant has been completed, we can take a look at how to leverage Ansible within Vagrant.

Leveraging Ansible for Vagrant provisioning

Ansible's playbook implementation can be used to provision Vagrant machines through the Ansible provider. Providers in Vagrant allow the Vagrant user to specify a configuration management solution that will be leveraged to automate...