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Mastering Ansible. Effectively automate configuration management and deployment challenges with Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition

Mastering Ansible. Effectively automate configuration management and deployment challenges with Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition

James Freeman, Jesse Keating

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Automation is essential for success in the modern world of DevOps. Ansible provides a simple, yet powerful, automation engine for tackling complex automation challenges.
This book will take you on a journey that will help you exploit the latest version's advanced features to help you increase efficiency and accomplish complex orchestrations. This book will help you understand how Ansible 2.7 works at a fundamental level and will also teach you to leverage its advanced capabilities. Throughout this book, you will learn how to encrypt Ansible content at rest and decrypt data at runtime. Next, this book will act as an ideal resource to help you master the advanced features and capabilities required to tackle complex automation challenges. Later, it will walk you through workflows, use cases, orchestrations, troubleshooting, and Ansible extensions. Lastly, you will examine and debug Ansible operations, helping you to understand and resolve issues.
By the end of the book, you will be able to unlock the true power of the Ansible automation engine and tackle complex, real- world actions with ease.
  • 1. The System Architecture and Design of Ansible
  • 2. Protecting Your Secrets with Ansible
  • 3. Infrastructure Management for Enterprises with AWX
  • 4. Ansible and Windows - Not Just for Linux
  • 5. Unlocking the Power of Jinja2 Templates
  • 6. Controlling Task Conditions
  • 7. Composing Reusable Ansible Content with Roles
  • 8. Troubleshooting Ansible
  • 9. Extending Ansible
  • 10. Minimizing Downtime with Rolling Updates
  • 11. Infrastructure Provisioning
  • 12. Network Automation
  • Title: Mastering Ansible. Effectively automate configuration management and deployment challenges with Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition
  • Author: James Freeman, Jesse Keating
  • Original title: Mastering Ansible. Effectively automate configuration management and deployment challenges with Ansible 2.7 - Third Edition
  • ISBN: 9781789959000, 9781789959000
  • Date of issue: 2019-03-25
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_14ro
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing