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Mastering Ansible [Video]

By : James Spurin
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Book Image

Mastering Ansible [Video]

5 (1)
By: James Spurin

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.</span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">This professional video course on Ansible guides the user through a multitude of topics in order to understand and professionally master Ansible. It aims to help you master Ansible while tackling and learning multiple topics. It starts with Ansible's architecture and how to provide effective scalable automation. Then we move on to installing and configuring it with various platforms. Further, we look into Ansible modules and playbooks with YAML syntax and execute it. Next you will get to know about advanced Ansible playbooks, and even structure them. You will learn to use Ansible with cloud services and containers and provision it with AWS and Docker. Finally, you will master troubleshooting, validating, and testing with Ansible.</span></p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p><span id="trade_selling_points_c" class="sugar_field">This clear, practical guide begins with the installation of Ansible on various operating systems and takes you all the way up to learning the use of Ansible with cloud services and containers and provisioning it with AWS and Docker. This course will help you to actually master Ansible.&nbsp;</span></p>
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 2
Ansible Architecture and Design
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Section 6
Ansible Playbooks, Facts
Get to know how facts in Ansible provide detailed host context. - Understand the relationship of facts to the setup module - Filter and use of specific facts - Create your own custom facts with and without super user access