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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


In this chapter, we talked about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Ansible. We also talked about the organizational requirements of CI->CD and how CI->CD makes software delivery more efficient. You learned about some of the patterns that make a CI->CD implementation effective.

After talking about CI->CD in depth and discussing the said patterns, we talked about Ansible's role within a CI->CD oriented organization. We discovered the connecting points that tools such as Ansible can be leveraged to make the process more efficient. By standardizing and making a software development organization more efficient through the use of modern tools such as Ansible, we can save the organization time and money.

In the next chapter, we will explore how to use Ansible with Docker. The chapter will teach you how to provision docker containers using Ansible, how to integrate Ansible with dockers service, how to manage docker image facts, and how to gain full control over...