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Automation with Ansible Playbooks
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Automation with Ansible Playbooks
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Overview of this book
This course is designed to get you hands-on with using Ansible for automating local and cloud configuration management tasks with Playbooks.
You’ll be guided through working with managed nodes. Moving ahead, the course will get you hands-on with setting up password authentication. As you approach the concluding sections, you’ll even get to grips with transferring a file from Ansible Engine to nodes using the copy module.
By the end of this course, you will be well-versed with the essential concepts, along with having the skills you need to automate tasks effectively using Ansible.
All the codes and supporting files for this course will be available at- https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Automation-with-Ansible-Playbooks-
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Introduction
Installing and Configuring Ansible
Ansible Ad-hoc commands
Ansible Facts and Variables
Ansible Inventories (Static and Dynamic Inventories)
How to work with Managed nodes if managed nodes are not installed with Python
Password Authentication setup and explanation
Ansible Variables
Introduction to Ansible Playbooks
Basic concepts to write Playbooks (Working with different variables)
Visual Studio Code Editor for Ansible Playbooks
Operations on strings and numbers using Playbooks (Filters and Methods)
Operators to work with tasks
Conditional Statements
Introduction to handlers
Loops
Error Handling (ignore_errors,failed_whenblock, rescue and always)
Ansible reusable concepts with: import_tasks,include_tasks
loacal_action vs delegate_to
Tomcat Installation and Configuration using Playbook
Template module
AWS Provisioning Using Ansible
Ansible Vault to Protect Ansible Playbooks with Encryption
Ansible-Roles