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OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 - Second Edition

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OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Most organizations are seeking methods to improve business agility because they have realized just having a cloud is not enough. Being able to improve application deployments, reduce infrastructure downtime, and eliminate daily manual tasks can only be accomplished through some sort of automation. We start with a brief overview of OpenStack and Ansible 2 and highlight some best practices. Each chapter will provide an introduction to handling various Cloud Operator administration tasks such as managing containers within your cloud; setting up/utilizing open source packages for monitoring; creating multiple users/tenants; taking instance snapshots; and customizing your cloud to run multiple active regions. Each chapter will also supply a step-by-step tutorial on how to automate these tasks with Ansible 2. Packed with real-world OpenStack administrative tasks, this book will walk you through working examples and explain how these tasks can be automated using one of the most popular open source automation tools on the market today.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
OpenStack Administration with Ansible 2 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Cloud integrations


Since cloud automation is the main and most important theme of this book, it only makes sense that we highlight the many different cloud integrations Ansible 2.0 offers right out of the box. Again, this was one of the reasons why I immediately fell in love with Ansible. Yes, the other automation tools also have hooks into many of the cloud providers, but I found at times they did not work or were not mature enough to leverage. Ansible has gone above and beyond to not fall into that trap. Not saying Ansible has all the bases covered, it does feel like most are and that is what matters most to me.

If you have not checked out the cloud modules available for Ansible, take a moment now and take a look at http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_cloud_modules.html. From time to time check back, as I am confident that you will be surprised to find more have been added. I am very proud of my Ansible family for keeping on top of these and making it much easier to write automation...